How to Print Newlines

[jdogg1]

Hi,

Please help me. I figured out how to print but whenever a newline character is supposed to print, it prints two square boxes. How would I go about fixing that?

Thanks

 

[AmkG]

I presume you're using TextOut()?

You could use DrawText() instead, which is much more powerful but much less efficient.

You could also process the string yourself. When you encounter a newline, print only up to one less than the newline, then reset your pointer to AFTER the newline, move your X-coord variable back to 0, add the line height to your Y-coord variable, then search again for a newline or a terminating null.

To get the line height, use the GetTextMetrics() API. Add the tmHeight and tmExternalLeading returned by GetTextMetrics together to get the line height.

Or like I said you could just use DrawText... "Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."

 

[RbgoWeb]

In some text editors '\n' is processed as a new line, but notepad needs the "\r\n" sequence to start a new line.