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Re: Length of text in MessageBox function

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:21
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Richard Casten wrote:

>I was able to do and, as expected, the character string was clipped since the
>bold font produced a string longer than the window.

You might try using TextOut() instead of DrawText()

If that still clips, then maybe you could use the hdc of the parent
window (dialog)
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From: Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Length of text in MessageBox function
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:21:51 -0800
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