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From: Mike Collins
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:17

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Hi all, got what seems like a really simple problem but can work out how to 
solve it.  I'm coding up a function in a DLL that will print a registration 
card for the user to send to use.

Instead of having the hassel of using a reporting tool, i decided to simply 
use the TPrinter object and write directly to the canvas.  All seems pretty 
fine and dandy until i came to try and display the registration code.  It is 
the product of an public / private encryption system and the resultant data 
/ ansistring is 172 characters long and is a solid block of text without any 
spaces in it.

When I use this with DrawText or DrawTextEx it will not wrap the test so the 
string goes of the end of the canvas / page.  I assum this is because it 
can't find any blank spaces between 'words'.  I've tried all variations of 
the flags but i get the same results...

Does anyone have any suggestions that i can use?

Many thanks in advance...

Mike C

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