Windows Programming Question

[Kyle]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a new windows application and learn windows programming because my lack of knowledge in that area is preventing me from actually doing anything significant.

All the functions in z-term.c seem to be used for writing text to the screen.

I was wondering if someone could point me to the "bottom" level function that actually does the job of writing a character to the screen. That is, how one would do it if they were starting an application from scratch in MSVC++ 2008 Express Edition.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

Kyle

[Sirridan]

In file main-win.c

2129	static errr Term_text_win(int x, int y, int n, byte a, cptr s)
2130	{
2131	        term_data *td = (term_data*)(Term->data);
2132	        RECT rc;
2133	        HDC hdc;
2134	
2135	
2136	        /* Total rectangle */
2137	        rc.left = x * td->tile_wid + td->size_ow1;
2138	        rc.right = rc.left + n * td->tile_wid;
2139	        rc.top = y * td->tile_hgt + td->size_oh1;
2140	        rc.bottom = rc.top + td->tile_hgt;
2141	
2142	        /* Acquire DC */
2143	        hdc = GetDC(td->w);
2144	
2145	        /* Background color */
2146	        SetBkColor(hdc, RGB(0, 0, 0));
2147	
2148	        /* Foreground color */
2149	        if (colors16)
2150	        {
2151	                SetTextColor(hdc, PALETTEINDEX(win_pal[a]));
2152	        }
2153	        else if (paletted)
2154	        {
2155	                SetTextColor(hdc, win_clr[a & (BASIC_COLORS-1)]);
2156	        }
2157	        else
2158	        {
2159	                SetTextColor(hdc, win_clr[a]);
2160	        }
2161	
2162	        /* Use the font */
2163	        SelectObject(hdc, td->font_id);
2164	
2165	        /* Bizarre size */
2166	        if (td->bizarre ||
2167	            (td->tile_hgt != td->font_hgt) ||
2168	            (td->tile_wid != td->font_wid))
2169	        {
2170	                int i;
2171	
2172	                /* Erase complete rectangle */
2173	                ExtTextOut(hdc, 0, 0, ETO_OPAQUE, &rc, NULL, 0, NULL);
2174	
2175	                /* New rectangle */
2176	                rc.left += ((td->tile_wid - td->font_wid) / 2);
2177	                rc.right = rc.left + td->font_wid;
2178	                rc.top += ((td->tile_hgt - td->font_hgt) / 2);
2179	                rc.bottom = rc.top + td->font_hgt;
2180	
2181	                /* Dump each character */
2182	                for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
2183	                {
2184	                        /* Dump the text */
2185	                        ExtTextOut(hdc, rc.left, rc.top, 0, &rc,
2186	                                   s+i, 1, NULL);
2187	
2188	                        /* Advance */
2189	                        rc.left += td->tile_wid;
2190	                        rc.right += td->tile_wid;
2191	                }
2192	        }
2193	
2194	        /* Normal size */
2195	        else
2196	        {
2197	                /* Dump the text */
2198	                ExtTextOut(hdc, rc.left, rc.top, ETO_OPAQUE | ETO_CLIPPED, &rc,
2199	                           s, n, NULL);
2200	        }
2201	
2202	        /* Release DC */
2203	        ReleaseDC(td->w, hdc);
2204	
2205	        /* Success */
2206	        return 0;
2207	}

2198 ExtTextOut(hdc, rc.left, rc.top, ETO_OPAQUE | ETO_CLIPPED, &rc,
2199 s, n, NULL);

The exact function is ExtTextOut(HDC, x, y, FLAGS, RECT area, string pointer, number of characters, NULL)

I can't remember what the last parameter is, but I've never used anything but null. Make sure to get the window's HDC and set the text color, etc.

[Kyle]

Awesome! Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.

[Sirridan]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Awesome! Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.

NP, the lower level windows stuff is all in win-main.c I believe, or at least 99% of it.

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by Sirridan

NP, the lower level windows stuff is all in win-main.c I believe, or at least 99% of it.

*All* Windows stuff is in main-win.c.

[Sirridan]

Originally Posted by takkaria

*All* Windows stuff is in main-win.c.

Except for trunk/src/win... which really doesn't count though :P

Slowly but surely angband source is making sense to me, figuring it out has been a fun distraction when work has been slow.