GDI's TextOut giving strange character

hi all,

I am new in win32 programming, I try to use in following ways:

case WM_PAINT:
hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps);
TextOut(hdc,50,50, (LPCTSTR)"H", 2);
......etc

It seem to give me some strange chinese character.

How should I cast the lpstring  I am using Window XP and visual studio VC++

2005 express edition, PSDK.

Regards,

808
Thank you all,

It seem to compile correctly with TextOut(hdc, 50, 50, _T("H"), 2);
Joshua Cole

You could try like

....

TCHAR szText[2]=_T("H");

TextOut(hdc,50,50, szText,_tcslen(szText));

....

Regarding the fourth parameter to "TextOut", below link from MSDN can give you more ideas.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_StringLength.asp
Allen Kwan
Hi Surren,

Thank you.

This works too...

TCHAR szText[2]=_T("H");

TextOut(hdc,50,50, szText,_tcslen(szText));

Regards,

Alexon
bigman921
First Question, Do you at least see the "H" and afterwards the funny Chinese character If that's the case you have one too many characters marked for display, change the 2 to a 1.

TextOut(hdc, 50, 50, (LPCTSTR)"H", 1);

If not I use _T("") operator in VS2005.

try TextOut(hdc, 50, 50, _T("H"), 2);

Hope That works

Kindest Regards

Quintin Immelman
GDI's TextOut giving strange character