SIMPLE way to use TextOut for multiple lines???

[Al Blake]

I am porting a functional C++ console application to the MFC framework to
produce a windows app. The interface is VERY simple and all the app needs to
do is write to the scrolling view. There is no file I/O, it just needs to
show a 'log' of what it is doing on the view.
I am trying to show the output using the CDC::TextOut() function but cannot
find a simple way to get it to print multiple line text strings.
I want to duplicate the functionality of:

printf("This is the first line\nThis is the second line\n");

in the console app but TextOut does NOT recognise \n as a linefeed character
and the whole thing comes out on one line. Is there a simple way to write
plain text to a view so that multiple lines can be written and the write
position updated automatically? (I have tried CDC:SetTextAlign() but that
only seems to set the horizontal position not the vertical one.)

Am I really going to be forced to calculate and save the position of the
text after every write? It seems a huge overhead just to display a simple
scrolling log.
Thanks for any tips or suggestions as to the simplest way to accomplish
this.

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[Dirk Djuga]

Al Blake wrote in message <35c32...@home.spc.org.nc>...

You should simply use a CEditView to show text. Next best would be a
CEdit...

If there is any reason why you couldn't, you can use CDC::DrawText() instead
of TextOut(). It draws multiline text ("\r\n" is the linefeed token)

cU
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[David Lowndes]

>I am trying to show the output using the CDC::TextOut() function but cannot
>find a simple way to get it to print multiple line text strings.
>I want to duplicate the functionality of:
>
> printf("This is the first line\nThis is the second line\n");
>

>Is there a simple way to write
>plain text to a view so that multiple lines can be written and the write
>position updated automatically?

Al,

Have a look at DrawText. I think that'll do what you want, including
calculating the bounding rectangle extent of the text.

Dave
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[Spytech]

> >I want to duplicate the functionality of:
> >
> > printf("This is the first line\nThis is the second line\n");
> >

> >in the console app but TextOut does NOT recognise \n as a linefeed
> character

> >and the whole thing comes out on one line. Is there a simple way to
write

try to use \n\r or \r\n ... with the EditBox and simple label the \r\n is a
line feed!

[Any One]

I missed the original thread, but couldn't you use DrawText ?

Spytech <ain...@hotmail.com> wrote in article
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