Center button-text

[pitter2206]

Hi there,
I try to center text which has sometimes 2 lines.

So I use DrawText with DT_WORDBREAK and  DT_CALCRECT. That would be fine, if the button text would be centered.

I tried this to fix it:

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GetClientRect(hwnd, & rc);
SetRect(&rc, 0, 0, bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight);


rcT.bottom = DrawText(lpDrawItem->hDC, buttons[nIdx].text, lstrlen(buttons[nIdx].text), &rc, DT_WORDBREAK | DT_CALCRECT);

int textHeight = bm.bmHeight/2 - rcT.bottom/2 ; //calc the half of the difference between bm.bmWidth and the result of rct.bottom to use it as int yTop in rcT

SetRect(&rcT, 50, textHeight, bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight);

DrawText(lpDrawItem->hDC, buttons[nIdx].text, lstrlen(buttons[nIdx].text), &rcT, DT_WORDBREAK | DT_LEFT);



The result is, that some buttons are centered and some not.  

Where is my missunderstanding??? Could you please give me a hint?

[TimoVJL]

Remove this GetClientRect(hwnd, & rc);
Use same width:

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SetRect(&rc, 50, 0, bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight);

[pitter2206]

arghhhh....

I think I had to see that myself.... 

Thank you!