[REBOL] Re: Printing
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 12-Sep-2003 15:04
Hi Elan,
E> hdcEMF = CreateEnhMetaFile(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
Right, but then all you have is a DC, so you still have to use other
APIs (e.g. DrawTextEx) to render data into that DC, and if you're
dealing with text then you're probably going to need to select font
objects in and out of it, etc., right?
Also, I'm not sure for EMF DCs if using NULL for the reference DC will
affect them. Not a problem for rendering to the screen of course. If
it does, then you might have to use CreateDC, which leads to DEVCAPS
stuff, and so on.
Just trying to look at what all would be involved. As soon as you get
into GDI stuff you end up going down a lot of little side-paths in my
experience. Lots of potential for resource leaks too.
-- Gregg
