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Q99110: BUG: ETO_CLIPPED Does Not Clip Rotated Text

Article: Q99110
Product(s): Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kb16bitonly kbGrpDSUser kbOSWin310bug kbWndw
Last Modified: 07-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1 
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SYMPTOMS
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In Microsoft Windows version 3.1, text output with a rotated TrueType font is
not clipped when the ETO_CLIPPED flag and a clipping rectangle are specified in
ExtTextOut().

RESOLUTION
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To work around this problem, create a rectangular clipping region, select it
into the device context, and do not specify the ETO_CLIPPED flag or pass in a
clipping rectangle to ExtTextOut(). For example:

     hRegion = CreateRectRgn(rc.left, rc.top, rc.right, rc.bottom);
     SelectClipRgn(hDC, hRegion);
     ExtTextOut(hDC, x, y, 0, NULL, szText, lstrlen(szText), NULL);
     DeleteObject(hRegion);

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in Windows version 3.1.

Additional query words: ExtTextOut clipping region TrueType

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Keywords          : kb16bitonly kbGrpDSUser kbOSWin310bug kbWndw 
Technology        : kbAudDeveloper kbWin3xSearch kbSDKSearch kbWinSDKSearch kbWinSDK310
Version           : WINDOWS:3.1
Issue type        : kbbug

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