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Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout?

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Am 22.12.2015 um 23:47 schrieb David Ogilvie:
> It's the Windows API one that I was trying to use, and was looking at
> the M$ documentation.  I'm sure there must be a way to output text of
> different sizes, but they sure don't make it obvious how to do it!  <grin>

The API documentation is really meant more for reference, not as 
learning material for newbies.  Windows programming is complex enough 
that you really need some coherent explanation of it all.  Generations 
of budding Windows programmers have all learned from various updated 
versions of the same book: "Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold.

As to the problem at hand: TextOut() has five arguments.  Four of them 
are pretty self-explanatory.  The clue must thus be in the remaining 
one: the HDC, or "handle to a device context".  You'll want to find out 
where to get that from, and what other functions use this kind of 
argument, particular those that deal with fonts.

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How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? David Ogilvie <d2ogilvi@sympatico.ca> - 2015-12-19 15:25 -0500
  Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? Johann Klammer <klammerj@a1.net> - 2015-12-21 03:44 +0100
    Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? Johann Klammer <klammerj@a1.net> - 2015-12-21 18:25 +0100
  Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2015-12-21 18:33 +0100
    Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? David Ogilvie <d2ogilvi@sympatico.ca> - 2015-12-22 17:47 -0500
      Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2015-12-23 13:05 +0100
        Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? David Ogilvie <d2ogilvi@sympatico.ca> - 2015-12-23 18:35 -0500
          Re: How do I change the size and font of text output by textout? David Ogilvie <d2ogilvi@sympatico.ca> - 2016-01-02 11:12 -0500

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