Getting the rect of the text in a Static

[Tommy2k]

Is there any good way to do this or do I know a workaround of some sort?

[basementman]

To get the rect of the control or of the text itself? // Control: CRect oR; CWnd *pStatic = GetDlgItem(IDC_THE_STATIC_CTRL); pStatic->GetWindowRect(&oR); ScreenToClient(&oR); // bounding rectangle of static's text contents CString cText; GetDlgItemText(IDC_THE_STATIC_CTRL,cText); CWnd *pStatic = GetDlgItem(IDC_THE_STATIC_CTRL); pStatic->GetClientRect(&oR); CDC *pDC = pStatic->GetDC(); pDC->DrawText(cText,&oR,DT_CALCRECT|DT_LEFT|DT_SINGLELINE|DT_TOP); pStatic->ReleaseDC(pDC); // oR now has the bounding rectangle needed to display the text.  onwards and upwards...

[valikac]

One solution is to get the rect of the entire edit windows and then use GetTextExtent() to take add and subtract unit size. Kuphryn

[Tommy2k]

Wouldn't it be better to just make a memDC so the text itself won't show up on the control (it's already there ofcourse)? Or doesn't it do this anyway?

[John M Drescher]

With the DT_CALCRECT the drawtext does not go to the screen it just calculates the rect. John

[Tommy2k]

:-) Great! Thnx