Cannot use printf, sprintf and cout in MFC (exe) window 1

[gearbox88]

Hello guys, I've been experimenting with a PCI data aquisition card in my home computer that is running on WIN 98. I am using Visual C++ 5 to build an Win32 MFC (exe)application program to display the 8 bits data retrived by the card, thats when I run into a problem of displaying the data. I've tired printf, sprintf, cout and std::cout with no output on the window. I've already loaded all the header file necessary - #include "iostream.h"
#include <iostream>
#include &quot;stdio.h&quot;
#include &quot;conio.h&quot;
#include &quot;stdlib.h&quot;
The program compiled and linked without any errors but there is no output in the window even when I tried a simple string output like &quot;hello&quot;.
The only function that could output characters in the window is the device context &quot;TextOut&quot;, but it only outputs ascii text and not the decimal equivalent that I want it.

So can someone out there help me out please. Thanks.

 

[obislavu]

You can use sprinf() to format the string but if you are already in MFC then you can use CString.Format and BOOL TextOut( int x, int y, const CString& str );
Example:
CDC myCDC;
CString sTemp;
int nRead = 2048;
int l=1;
int c = 1;
sTemp.Format(&quot; Reading data from : %s, Number of bytes = %d &quot;, &quot;COM1:&quot;, nRead);
myCDC.TextOut(l, c, sTemp);
sTemp.Format(&quot;End receiving data from : %s, Total bytes read = %d&quot;, &quot;COM1:&quot;, nTotal);
myCDC.TextOut(l+1, c+1, sTemp);
//...

2. Depending on what is your GUI for this application you could use other possibilities that ofer MFC.
-obislavu-