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Started by phil67rpg October 26, 2012 11:47 PM

14 comments, last by phil67rpg 11 years, 5 months ago

phil67rpg

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October 26, 2012 11:47 PM

I am trying to display some text using dx 9 and c++.here is the code I am using.
void DisplaySomeText()



{

D3DCOLOR fontColor = D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255,0,0);

RECT rct;

rct.left=200;

rct.right=600;

rct.top=20;

rct.bottom =40;

g_Font-> DrawText(NULL,"Hello World",-1,&rct,0,fontColor);

}

SiCrane

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October 26, 2012 11:57 PM

Do you have a question?

phil67rpg

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October 27, 2012 06:27 PM

yes in the following code, I am trying to pass in a string to be displayed on the screen.



void DisplaySomeText(string text)

{

D3DCOLOR fontColor = D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255,0,0);

RECT rct;

rct.left=200;

rct.right=600;

rct.top=20;

rct.bottom =40;

g_Font-> DrawText(NULL,text,-1,&rct,0,fontColor);

}

the text field in the drawtext line is giving me an error.

SiCrane

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October 27, 2012 06:38 PM

It's funny, but error messages often tell you what the problem is. While I can probably guess what your problem is from the code, you should probably examine the error message carefully and try to understand what it means. Try to break it down into pieces and see what parts you can understand and what parts you don't understand. And then ask a specific question about the parts you don't understand.

phil67rpg

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October 27, 2012 06:46 PM

well I did some research and found the field I am working on is a pointer to a string to draw.I will do more research.

phil67rpg

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October 27, 2012 07:53 PM

where is a good tutorial for displaying text on the screen using dx9 and c++

phil67rpg

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October 27, 2012 09:31 PM

I am getting a runtime error with this line of code.
g_font-> DrawText(NULL,"HelloWorld",-1,&rct,0,fontColor);
everything else appears ok
let me know if you need more code.

BeerNutts

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October 28, 2012 02:49 AM

I am getting a runtime error with this line of code.
g_font-> DrawText(NULL,"HelloWorld",-1,&rct,0,fontColor);
everything else appears ok
let me know if you need more code.

POST THE FRIGGING ERROR PHIL.

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