Multiline Text Drawing in win32

[lfnunley]

Hi forum! I'm pretty new to the Win32 API, but I've been experimenting with making some games like a slot machine and such. I was wondering how you would go about making a text output function that would take up say 5 lines, and when a new line of text get drawn, the existing text moves up, like a command prompt. I think this would be handy for debug text and such. I know how you would manually go about doing it with DrawText() and such, but is there a slightly more automatic way of doing this? Thanks!

[webJose]

Well, you can add the lines to a listbox or multiline textbox and then make it scroll to the bottom. Other than that, I don't think there's something already made.

[modoran]

You can use a simple multiline edit control or a richedit control, both support automatic scrolling.

[andywestken]

A little scrolling window has all kind of uses, but for debug output, when I don't want to atually debug an app, I use DebugView (free from Microsoft TectNet).

DebugView
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

All output written using the Windows OutputDebugString() function (and functions/macros that call through to it) are displayed by DebugView (if the app is not already connected to a debugger)

Andy

[lfnunley]

Thanks @mordoran!