DT_CALCRECT with DT_WORDBREAK

[_T No name]

CRect rText( 0, 0, 0, 0 ); pDC->;DrawText( str, rText, DT_CENTER |DT_CALCRECT |DT_WORDBREAK); szText = rText.Size(); in rText i dnt get values at all they ramain same as 0 0 0 0 ny body help thankz

[CPallini]

(I hope str is not empty...:rolleyes:)

_T("No name") wrote:

pDC->;DrawText( str, rText, DT_CENTER |DT_CALCRECT |DT_WORDBREAK);

Shouldn't be

pDC->DrawText( str, **&**rText, DT_CENTER |DT_CALCRECT |DT_WORDBREAK);

?

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[_T No name]

no that i have checked already string is nt empty

[CPallini]

Have you added the address of operator to your function call? :)

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]

[Code o mat]

Isn't the problem that you are telling DrawText to break the lines with DT_WORDBREAK and you specify an empty rectangle, so how can DrawText know where to break the lines if it does not know the original width?

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[_T No name]

thanks it helped :)