[RESOLVED]Using RoundRect AND DrawText

Hello,

I am using the following code to draw two red round rectangles outlined with a solid white pen in the canter of my black client window. The problem I have is that I would like to also centre my text with in the round rectangles horizontally and vertically. From what I can tell the API DrawText function would allow me to do just this using ‘DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER’ however, this API call requires that I have a structure of type RECT how do I acquire that from my round rectangles?

Thanks in advance for any help in this matter,

Code:

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        case WM_PAINT:
        {
            PAINTSTRUCT ps;
            RECT rect;
            HDC hdc;
                       

            hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);

            SelectObject(hdc, GetStockObject(WHITE_PEN));
            SelectObject (hdc, hBrush1);
            RoundRect(hdc,10, 10, cxClient - 10, (cyClient - 10) / 2, 10, 10);
            RoundRect(hdc,10, (cyClient + 10) / 2, cxClient - 10, cyClient - 10 , 10, 10);
            SetBkColor(hdc, RGB(255,0,0));
            SetTextAlign(hdc,TA_CENTER);
            TextOut(hdc, cxClient / 2, 15, "TEXT", 4);
            TextOut(hdc, cxClient / 2, 55, "MORE TEXT", 9);
            //DrawText(hdc, "TEXT", 4, &rect, DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER);

            EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);
            return 0;
        }

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It's just the width and height of your round rectangle, so put in the same values you did, just ignore the radius of the corners.

Thanks, very much for your quick reply and advice parksie it is much appreciated. I know that I need these values in the structure RECT, but what is the best way to do this and how?

Code:

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RECT rect;
rect.left = 10;
rect.top = 10;
rect.right = cxClient - 10;
rect.bottom = cyClient - 10;

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You could also use the SetRect API call, but why call into a dll to do a thing you can do yourself in only 3 lines more?

Thanks, CornedBee some how I knew I could count on you for a solution. :-) Having spent a little more time investigating a solution myself since posting this thread I came up with the following code. In which I was using the SetRect API, but as your solution saves me calling this API I will be implementing your improved solution.

Code:

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        case WM_PAINT:
        {
            PAINTSTRUCT ps;
            RECT rect;
            HDC hdc;
                       

            hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);

            SelectObject(hdc, GetStockObject(WHITE_PEN));
            SelectObject (hdc, hBrush1);
            RoundRect(hdc,10, 10, cxClient - 10, (cyClient - 10) / 2, 10, 10);
            RoundRect(hdc,10, (cyClient + 10) / 2, cxClient - 10, cyClient - 10, 10, 10);
            SetBkMode(hdc,TRANSPARENT);
            SetRect(&rect, 10, 10, cxClient - 10, (cyClient - 10) / 2);
            DrawText (hdc, TEXT ("SOME TEXT"), -1, &rect, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER) ;
            SetRect(&rect, 10, (cyClient + 10) / 2, cxClient - 10, cyClient - 10);
            DrawText (hdc, TEXT ("MORE TEXT"), -1, &rect, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER) ;

            EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);

            return 0;
        }

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Thanks, as always for helping make my code even better CornedBee.

Always glad.