How to set font using CDC

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I have problem in setting up font attributes to CStatic control. I have static control where I am setting user name when logged in using SetWindowText. I have trapped mouse hover and changing the color of it. I am handling OnMouseMove,OnMouseHover and OnMouseLeave events. I am drawing text in OnPaint using DrawText / DrawTextEx. But I want to set the font to it and also want to align the text vertically centered. But I am unable to make it.
Pls suggest how to handling Font and Alignment of control text.

DrawTextEx(pDC->GetSafeHdc(),text.GetBuffer(),text.GetLength(),rc,DT_EDITCONTROL | DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER,NULL);

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SNI

Posted 3-Oct-13 21:09pm

SNI

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-03T22:00:00

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You need to create a font[^] and then select it into the DC[^], and set the text alignment[^], before drawing the text. Also, if you are using MFC then use the class object methods (e.g CDC::DrawText[^]) rather than the pure Win32 functions.

Posted 3-Oct-13 22:00pm

Richard MacCutchan

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SNI 4-Oct-13 5:38am

Thanks it works. I tried to align text vertically centered but that is not working.

Richard MacCutchan 4-Oct-13 5:48am

What do you mean by "that is not working"? You need to show the code you use and explain what results you expect and what results you achieve.

SNI 4-Oct-13 5:57am

I was able to set the font of the text and also able to align text horizontally centered. I also want to align text vertically centered that is not working...
following is the code snippet.

CDC* pDC = GetWindowDC();
pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);
pDC->SelectObject(m_font);
pDC->FillRect( &rect, &brush);
DrawTextEx(pDC->GetSafeHdc(),text.GetBuffer(),text.GetLength(),rect,DT_EDITCONTROL | DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER,NULL);

Richard MacCutchan 4-Oct-13 6:09am

See the documentation here, particularly the comments for DT_VCENTER.

SNI 5-Oct-13 1:36am

Thanks....it worked