writing text with directx

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Jul 28th, 2002, 05:04 PM
spandex44

writing text with directx

I am trying to draw text to a secondary surface used for blitting, using the surface.DrawText function. I have set up my font properly, that all works... However, regardless of what I set my x and y values to, the text gets drawn at 0,0.

Anyone know what's wrong?

Code:

Dim FontInfo As New StdFont backbuffer.SetFontTransparency True backbuffer.SetForeColor vbBlue FontInfo.Bold = True FontInfo.size = 12 FontInfo.name = "Verdana" backbuffer.SetFont FontInfo backbuffer.DrawText X, Y, "Test", True
Jul 29th, 2002, 07:55 AM
KingDavid
Try This....
VB Code:
```
backbuffer.DrawText X, Y, "Test", False
```
Jul 29th, 2002, 10:52 AM
spandex44

Oh yea, that works! What exactly is that parameter? It is called "b", so I just assumed it means bold or something like that...
Jul 30th, 2002, 08:04 AM
KingDavid

I don't know exactly what it is used for. It's rather anoying:D
Aug 1st, 2002, 03:17 AM
MoMad

Its actually a place holder for future implemenations (i think), so if you put anything other than 0 (or false) in there, you will only get the error E_NOTIMPL (Not Implemented) or something like that.. dont kno why, but since directx is something thats ever changing and ever evolving, i dont kno why they keep making such crazy changes every time they come out with a new one either!