Drawing Text
After you have selected a font, set your text-formatting options, and computed the necessary character width and height values for a string of text, you can draw characters and symbols using either the DrawText or ExtTextOut function. When you call one of these functions, the operating system passes the call to the graphics engine, which in turn passes the call to the appropriate device driver.
In most cases, ExtTextOut is faster than DrawText. However, there are some instances when DrawText is more efficient, as in the case where you need to draw multiple lines of text within the borders of a rectangular region. DrawText does not work with rotated text.
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Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005
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