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MFC Static Control Using Direct2D and DirectWrite
While doing some refactoring on sample source code presented in MFC Support for DirectWrite series, I had the idea to make a control easy to be used for rendering text. It could be a custom MFC control...
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MFC Static Control Using Direct2D and DirectWrite (updated)
I have update the MFC static control presented in the previous articles by adding methods for setting text range color, typography and inline images. Code samples Setting text range color void...
View ArticleMFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 7: A Step to Custom Rendering
The previous articles from this series show how to format the text layout using built-in DirectWrite methods. However, as said earlier, we can do more custom formatting (e.g. draw double/triple...
View ArticleGetting Direct2D, DirectWrite and WIC Factories in MFC
MFC library offers a series of wrapper classes over Direct2D and DirectWrite interfaces (see CRenderTarget and CD2D classes). That’s pretty cool because allows to easily load and render images and draw...
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C++ Programming Language Guidelines Support Library Review: span<T> Guidelines Support Library Review: string_span<T> Microsoft Libraries Easy PNG Resource Loading with MFC – Part 1 MFC...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 8: Trimming
When using “classic” GDI functions i.e. CDC::DrawText, it’s no sweat to trim with ellipsis a single-line text when that text does not fit in the drawing rectangle width, by specifying DT_WORDBREAK...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 9: Hit-Test
DirectWrite has hit-testing support that can be useful for showing a caret, making a selection, doing some action if the user chicks in a given text range, and so on. The hit-test methods of...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 10: Outlined Text
In a previous article, I showed the basics of custom text rendering with DirectWrite (see MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 7: A Step to Custom Rendering). So far so good but it just mimics the...
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MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 11: About Trimming Again
In a previous article, I showed how to trim a text which overflows the layout box. In the example presented there, the ellipsis is added at the end of truncated text. But if, let’s say, we have to show...
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Codexpert – 2017 Articles Summary
MFC Support for Direct2D – Part 3: Multithreading MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 8: Trimming MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 9: Hit-Test MFC Support for DirectWrite – Part 10: Outlined Text MFC...
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