mfc, Font thing

by **German Koninin** » Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:21:51 GMT

Good afternoon, everybody.
A stupid question about font. How to make a font looking like this:
S o m e t e x t.
I mean to make a space between characters longer, but characters should be
the same size like normal.
Thanks.

by **Frank Hickman [MVP]** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:13:58 GMT

Use Courier (raster) or Courier New (true type).

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by **German Koninin** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:26:20 GMT

Unfortunately I need to use Verdana. And I'm looking how to make a font like
this.

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by **TWFubnkgU2lsdmE** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:09:03 GMT

Hi German,

Try using the ExtTextOut API. The last parameter is an array of spacing
values which allows you to specify exactly how far apart each character will
appear from the last. It will take a bit of effort to calculate that array
if you want the spacing to depend on the widths of the characters. If you
want the character widths to be equal then this is a breeze.

Hope that helps,
Manny

by **German Koninin** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:27:37 GMT

Looks like working. But the size of every cell is different. It is dependent
of actual character that is there. For example space that "space" takes is
more then space of T.
For eample "TEST TEST" looks like "T E S T T E S T", so you see that
"space" if long. Is there some tricky way how to cound the individual size
for every character depending of font name I use. I'm sure there is a way,
but can't remember where I seen it and any keywords. thanks a lot, your
reply was helpful for me.

spacing
will
array

by **Bill Thompson** » Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:35:46 GMT

Poke around with functions like CDC::GetTextExtent() (for individual
character sizes) or CDC::GetTextMetrics() (for average character
sizes), or perhaps SetTextCharacterExtra() to control the amount of
spaces between each character.

It seems like doing a character by character write, using
GetTextExtent() for each character, might do the trick for you.

by **Jerry Coffin** » Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:31:27 GMT

In article <es5YgV8$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >, "German Koninin"
<germanD0Tkoninin/_\TcolumbuscrmD0|com> says...

GetTextExtentEx32 will give you an array of the starting points of
the characters. You should be able to modify that and then feed the
result back to ExtTextOut.

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Later,
Jerry.

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