How do i go about changing text on the screen. and example would be you have a simple window with text from the DrawText() fuction saying "hi this is text #1". I want to be able to press a button and have "hi this is text #1" go away and "blalblablalbla" in its place. I program in C++ windows API, and i''m very new at it. - king171@hotmail.com
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You need to clear the screen (or window, or whatever) and just draw the new text.

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You should use DrawText or TextOut to print text on DC''s. (They''re WinAPI functions)

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How would i clear the screen?

- king171@hotmail.com
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yeah

- mallen22@concentric.net
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yeah

- mallen22@concentric.net
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Well, I would use something like

RECT rect;
GetClientRect(hWnd, ▭);
FillRect(hDC,▭,CreateSolidBrush(0x00FFFFFF)); //Clear screen
DrawText(hDC, text, strlen(text), ▭, DT_CENTER);

and then in WndProc put

case WM_ERASEBKGND:
return TRUE;

and

case WM_KEYDOWN:
switch(wParam){
case VK_TAB:text=(text==text1)?text2:text1;
break;
}

Hey bravezeus i don''t get this line

text=(text==text1)?text2:text1;

could you explain that to me?

- king171@hotmail.com
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It's a condensed form of if-else,

(boolean expression)?(statement1) : (statement2);
practically (but not exactly) same as
if(boolean expression)
statement1;
else
statement2;

if the boolean expression is true the whole thing evaluates as statement1 and if the boolean expression is false (else) it evaluates as statement2, here are some examples :

return (x>1)?x:1;
(x>1)?func():func2();

but if you use this remember that statement1 and statement2 must be of the same type (function, int...etc.)

I think it is really useful in some situations like switching something between two values like :

bool x;
x=(x?false:true);

Hope that helps =)

Edited by - BraveZeus on 3/18/00 3:42:42 PM

Thanks for all the help.

- king171@hotmail.com
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