DrawRotatedTextBoxExA

Text, Page layout

Description

The trailing A denotes the ANSI (char) DLL entry point; the ActiveX/COM surface exposes only the Unicode form. Behaviour is identical to DrawRotatedTextBoxEx and string arguments are interpreted using the current SetAnsiMode code page

Similar to the DrawRotatedTextBoxEx function, but allows the text box to show borders.

Syntax

Delphi

Function DLDrawRotatedTextBoxExA(InstanceID: Integer; Left, Top, Width, Height, Angle: Double; Text: PAnsiChar; Options, Border, Radius, DrawOptions: Integer): Integer;

DLL

int DLDrawRotatedTextBoxExA(int InstanceID, double Left, double Top, double Width, double Height, double Angle, const char * Text, int Options, int Border, int Radius, int DrawOptions);

Parameters

Left

The horizontal co-ordinate of the top-left corner of the text box

Top

The vertical co-ordinate of the top-left corner of the text box

Width

The width of the box

Height

The height of the box

The angle the box should be rotated around the top-left corner, measured anti-clockwise in degrees

Angle

Text

The text to draw on the page

0 = Center vertical alignment

1 = Top vertical alignment

2 = Bottom vertical alignment

3 = Center vertical alignment, no wrapping

4 = Top vertical alignment, no wrapping

5 = Bottom vertical alignment, no wrapping

Options

Border

0 = No Border

1 = Border

2 = Border with rounded corners

Radius of the corner arcs

Radius

DrawOptions

0 = Outline

1 = Fill

2 = Fill and outline

Return values