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From: curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Lining up rows and columns of characters
Message-ID: <yva6g814c@cctb.wa.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 20:50:21 GMT
References: <27561@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Chemical Computer Thinking Battery, Redmond, WA
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In article <27561@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
| Now, the problem is that when I do a TextOut or a DrawText, the letters do
| not align themselves correctly vertically because of the fonts.  This
| becoming a very important issue...is there a way to make the characters
| line up (assign 8x8 bit maps to everything?)....

You want to use a font with fixed spacing.

Try:

SelectObject(hdc, GetStockObject(OEM_FIXED_FONT)); // or SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT or ANSI_FIXED_FONT

For more information, see the Petzold book, pages 654-655.


Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com