DirectX how to draw text

[rodica]

Does anyone know how to draw text onto the screen?

Thanks

[Sastraxi]

Yep, if you want to draw to your Backbuffer you put:

BackBuffer.DrawText 50, 60, "Hello!", False

...To the best of my knowledge. The actual message may come before the coordinates (50 = X, 60 = Y).

[rodica]

Thanks for the tip, but I'm still having problems.
I'm just a beginner and I wish to see some sample code.
I'm trying to write a text in a triangle and I'm still kind of lost.

Thanks.

[Raptor]

In DirectX 7 and lower it's also possible to retrieve the Device Context (DC) of the Backbuffer and then use this DC with any of the normal Win32 GDI functions like TextOut, etc...

It must be something like:

Dim hDC as long

hDC = BackBuffer.GetDC  ' BackBuffer must be an DirectXSurface

but I'm not quite sure of this.

I'm also not sure if (and how) this works with DirectX8 as the MS documentation isn't very good...

[Zaei]

You cannot get a DC to a surface in D3D8. For drawing text, you must rely on the ID3DXFont interface (which is crap), or your own custom font class.

Z.