C / C++ / MFC

Andy202 wrote:

So what type (static or dymanic etc) of shared library should I be looking at.

Shilpi Boosar wrote:

I find GetTextMetrices but it does not give me correct width for unicode true type font.

RECT ImageRect = {0};

// get the required height of the bitmap
TEXTMETRIC tm = {0};
GetTextMetrics(ImageDC, &tm);
ImageRect.bottom = tm.tmHeight;

// Calculate the required width of the bitmap. Some characters in some fonts
// have overhangs and/or underhangs so large that the second or even third
// character from either end of the text can affect the size of the bitmap
// needed to display the text.
ABCFLOAT ABCWidths = {0};
double left = 0.0;
double right = 0.0;
double pos = 0.0;

for (std::tstring::iterator it = ImageText.begin(); it != ImageText.end(); ++it)
{
    if (GetCharABCWidthsFloat(ImageDC, *(it), *(it), &ABCWidths))
    {
        pos += ABCWidths.abcfA;
        left = min(left, pos);
        pos += ABCWidths.abcfB;
        right = max(right, pos);
        pos += ABCWidths.abcfC;
    }
}

ImageRect.right = (long)((right - left) + 0.5);