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Oh, yes, I forgot: the space needed for the text &quot;9&quot; is actually only 6 and for &quot;99&quot; it's 13, since there is a space between each character...
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Oh, yes, I forgot: the space needed for the text "9" is actually only 6 and for "99" it's 13, since there is a space between each character...

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Hi!<br />
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What precisely should Drawtext with DT_CALCRECT return? Specifications say that it returns the rectangle needed for the text, but it doesn't!<br />
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I have a fixed width font where I run DrawText/DT_CALCRECT for both the string &quot;9&quot; and the string &quot;99&quot;. They return a width of 9 and 18. By drawing vertical lines I can clearly see that I need to add 7 to move a vertical line one character and 14 to move it 2 characters. So why does Drawtext return 9??? GetTextExtent and GetTextMetrics all return 9 for the character width as well.<br />
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I run this from within a routine that is called during drawing of a control, so the DC has the correct font selected already (I think).<br />
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Thanks for any help!<br />
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P.S.: This is a simplified version of my question <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28317440/DrawText-vs-GetCellRect.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28317440/DrawText-vs-GetCellRect.html</a>, since I got no response to that so far.
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Hi!

What precisely should Drawtext with DT_CALCRECT return? Specifications say that it returns the rectangle needed for the text, but it doesn't!

I have a fixed width font where I run DrawText/DT_CALCRECT for both the string "9" and the string "99". They return a width of 9 and 18. By drawing vertical lines I can clearly see that I need to add 7 to move a vertical line one character and 14 to move it 2 characters. So why does Drawtext return 9??? GetTextExtent and GetTextMetrics all return 9 for the character width as well.

I run this from within a routine that is called during drawing of a control, so the DC has the correct font selected already (I think).

Thanks for any help!

P.S.: This is a simplified version of my question http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/Q_28317440.html, since I got no response to that so far.

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