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

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My profession was DOS programming for about 15 
years, and I have Petzold's book "Programming 
Windows 95", so agree with you completely. 
Petzold's website had downloads of the examples 
from some of his books, which I've been looking 
at, but a lot of stuff now seems to be in C++ or 
C#, (which I really never got a handle with 
<groan>), while most of my programming was in C, 
Pascal, Cobol, Fortran, et al.  <grin>

I admit that this is probably not strictly 
on-topic for this list, but at least I can say 
that the only compiler tools I've used since I 
attended Waterloo have been the Waterloo-based 
compilers (starting with WATIAC, WATMAP, WATFOR 
and WATFIV).  Yeah, that was a looong time ago!  :)

David O

On 12/23/2015 7:05 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> 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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