Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!milton!sumax!ole!quick!cctb!curt From: curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Lining up rows and columns of characters Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 01:06:10 GMT References: <27561@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <91084.073252LIBCRN@BYUVM.BITNET> Organization: Chemical Computer Thinking Battery, Redmond, WA Lines: 26 In article <91084.073252LIBCRN@BYUVM.BITNET> LIBCRN@BYUVM.BITNET writes: | 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. | | There is another solution. Instead of using a fixed font, split your | output strings into a number of fields (each collumn should be a seperate | field). Then when you draw the string on the screen, instead of calling | TextOut() once for the entire string, you call it a number of times (as | many times as you have collumns). Each time that you call TextOut(), you | supply it with the part of the output string which corresponds with the | collumn you are drawing at that time. It takes a little more work, but if | you do it this way, you can still use proportional fonts instead of those | ugly fixed fonts. If I remember correctly, the specific problem Brian was solve was printing a two-dimensional map of something using characters (i.e. each column is one character wide). For a case like this I think the visual appearance of the fixed fonts is fine. Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com