Delphi TextRect in Windows GDI

Question

Is there an analogue of Delphi TextRect in GDI? I looked at DrawText, DrawTextEx, but I didn't find what I needed. I need to draw a percent text of a progress bar that is divided in two color parts, e.g. the left part of the text is black, the right one is white. So as usually in all progress bars.

Thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

You are looking for the ExtTextOut function.

Sample:

procedure TForm4.FormPaint(Sender: TObject);
const
  S = 'This is a sample text';
begin
  ExtTextOut(Canvas.Handle, 10, 10, ETO_CLIPPED,
    Rect(40, 10, 100, 100), PChar(S), length(S), nil)    
end;

But I think that what you really want to do, is to draw 'NOT-coloured text':

procedure DrawTextNOT(const hDC: HDC; const Font: TFont; const Text: string; const X, Y: integer);
begin
  with TBitmap.Create do
    try
      Canvas.Font.Assign(Font);
      with Canvas.TextExtent(Text) do
        SetSize(cx, cy);
      Canvas.Brush.Color := clBlack;
      Canvas.FillRect(Rect(0, 0, Width, Height));
      Canvas.Font.Color := clWhite;
      Canvas.TextOut(0, 0, Text);
      BitBlt(hDC, X, Y, Width, Height, Canvas.Handle, 0, 0, SRCINVERT);
    finally
      Free;
    end;
end;

procedure TForm4.FormPaint(Sender: TObject);
const
  S = 'This is a sample text';
var
  ext: TSize;
begin
  Canvas.Brush.Color := clBlack;
  Canvas.FillRect(Rect(0, 0, Width div 2, Height));
  Canvas.Brush.Color := clWhite;
  Canvas.FillRect(Rect(Width div 2, 0, Width, Height));
  ext := Canvas.TextExtent(S);

  DrawTextNOT(Canvas.Handle, Canvas.Font, S, (Width - ext.cx) div 2,
    (Height - ext.cy) div 2);
end;

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