I have written a function to do this easily from within my program, but i have a few questions. First, how can i do text wrapping? That is, if i pass the function a string longer than the window width, move to the next line (and preferably to do that by word, not letter) second, and more importantly (to me), how would I pass a variable amount of variables in the same fashion as a function like printf? Like, i want to be able to call something like WriteToWindow("string %s and %i", s, i) etc. how is this done?

For your text wrapping, you might check out the DrawText API function. It has flags for autowrapping text if given a rectangle to clip to.

For variable arguments you will need to check out:

va_start
va_end
vsprintf

here is a sample function that prints messages to cout using a variable argument format:

//: wrapper for logging messages to output device
//:
bool debugout(const char *msg, ...) {


va_list argList;
char buffer[512] = { 0 };

va_start(argList, msg);


vsprintf(buffer, msg, argList);
va_end(argList);



cout << buffer << endl;
return (false);
}