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From: MFC on 31 Aug 2005 16:15
Dialog resource contains this:-

ID DIALOGEX 0, 0, 400, 258
STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_SYSMENU
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1

How do I programitically calculate the height and width in pixels of the
dialog without any windows API from values 400 and 258?

Thanks


From: MFC on 31 Aug 2005 16:22
I can use any windows API as long as that process doesn't involve creation
of dialog.

"MFC" <MFC(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Dialog resource contains this:-
>
> ID DIALOGEX 0, 0, 400, 258
> STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_SYSMENU
> FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1
>
> How do I programitically calculate the height and width in pixels of the
> dialog without any windows API from values 400 and 258?
>
> Thanks
>
>


From: Priyesh on 31 Aug 2005 16:36
"MFC" <MFC(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Dialog resource contains this:-
>
> ID DIALOGEX 0, 0, 400, 258
> STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_SYSMENU
> FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1
>
> How do I programitically calculate the height and width in pixels of the
> dialog without any windows API from values 400 and 258?
>
> Thanks
>
>

This KB article in MSDN seems to explain what you want

HOWTO: Calculate Dialog Base Units with Non-System-Based Font


From: MFC on 31 Aug 2005 16:45
used this but width doesn't come properly.
LONG l = GetDialogBaseUnits();

WORD baseunitX = LOWORD(l);

WORD baseunitY = HIWORD(l);

int left = (0 * baseunitX) / 4;

int right = (400 * baseunitX) / 4;

int top = (0 * baseunitY) / 8;

int bottom = (258 * baseunitY) / 8;



"Priyesh" <priyesh(a)donotreply.com> wrote in message
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> "MFC" <MFC(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:ubLzMjmrFHA.1788(a)tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Dialog resource contains this:-
> >
> > ID DIALOGEX 0, 0, 400, 258
> > STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_SYSMENU
> > FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1
> >
> > How do I programitically calculate the height and width in pixels of the
> > dialog without any windows API from values 400 and 258?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
> This KB article in MSDN seems to explain what you want
>
> HOWTO: Calculate Dialog Base Units with Non-System-Based Font
>
>


From: Priyesh on 31 Aug 2005 17:14

"MFC" <MFC(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> used this but width doesn't come properly.
> LONG l = GetDialogBaseUnits();
>
> WORD baseunitX = LOWORD(l);
>
> WORD baseunitY = HIWORD(l);
>
> int left = (0 * baseunitX) / 4;
>
> int right = (400 * baseunitX) / 4;
>
> int top = (0 * baseunitY) / 8;
>
> int bottom = (258 * baseunitY) / 8;
>
>
>
> "Priyesh" <priyesh(a)donotreply.com> wrote in message
> news:u2CyNumrFHA.2624(a)TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> "MFC" <MFC(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:ubLzMjmrFHA.1788(a)tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> > Dialog resource contains this:-
>> >
>> > ID DIALOGEX 0, 0, 400, 258
>> > STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_SYSMENU
>> > FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1
>> >
>> > How do I programitically calculate the height and width in pixels of
>> > the
>> > dialog without any windows API from values 400 and 258?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
>>
>> This KB article in MSDN seems to explain what you want
>>
>> HOWTO: Calculate Dialog Base Units with Non-System-Based Font
>>
>>
>
>

Must be the differences in font width and height in the target dialog
template. Try explicitly creating a MS Shell Dlg font (which is the one
used by your example template), select it to dc and use GetTextMetrics to
find the width and height of the font, then use those as baseunitx and y
instead of the ones returned from GetDialogBaseUnits.



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