Finding width of text

Question

I am setting the font for a control like this:

HDC hdc = GetDC(NULL);
int lfHeight = -MulDiv(szFont, GetDeviceCaps(hdc, LOGPIXELSY), 72);
ReleaseDC(NULL, hdc);
HFONT font = CreateFont(lfHeight, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, Font.c_str());
SendMessage(hwnd,WM_SETFONT,(WPARAM)font,0);

The control is a static. How would I find the width of the text in the static for a given string?

Answer 1

Use GetTextExtentPoint32. You'll need to select the font into the DC first.

Answer 2

CDC::GetTextExtent() and CDC::GetOutputTextExtent() should help.