Getting text extents

[AmkG]

I'm a old newbie programmer of Windows. I have a book which described programming in the old Windows v.1.1 (yeah, that old). Surprisingly, most of the techniques described there are still applicable in Win32 programming, other than changing the size of 'words' into dwords, and not getting the previous instance's data (which got me a GPF when I tried it).

Now, the book describes an API function called 'GetTextExtents().' This function takes an hDC, a pointer to a string and the string's length. However, I took a look at my include files, and I found that I do NOT have this function in my library. I HAVE found a bunch of other functions (note that they are declared in MASM form):

GetTextExtentExPointA PROTO WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD
GetTextExtentExPoint equ <GetTextExtentExPointA>

GetTextExtentExPointI PROTO WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD
GetTextExtentPoint32A PROTO WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD
GetTextExtentPoint32 equ <GetTextExtentPoint32A>

GetTextExtentPointA PROTO WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD
GetTextExtentPoint equ <GetTextExtentPointA>

GetTextExtentPointI PROTO WORD,WORD,WORD,WORD

Now all of the GetTextExtent functions have a 'Point' in their names, and they all have at least four arguments, as opposed to the three arguments of the original GetTextExtents(). Was GetTextExtents removed from the API? Or is my Win library incomplete (after all, the Win library for MASM was kinda reverse-engineered I think by Iczelion and others)?
&quot;Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know.&quot;

 

[DonQuichote]

There is a (visual basic oriented) description of the GetTextExtentPoint32 function at allapi the description can be found at:

http://www.allapi.net/apilist/apifunction.php?apifunction=GetTextExtentPoint32

hope this helps or amuses.