Dai mentions in the latest tutorial (book?) that there is no way to "...start from the right margin..."Well, the DT_RIGHT flag does work just fine!

MAKE_STRING(ST360_String10,NULL,NULL,IMAGE_USE_ERASE | IMAGE_USE_TRANSPARENCY | BIT7,0,226,40,60,52,3,			MODULE_VAR_NONE,MODULE_VAR_NONE,MODULE_VAR_NONE,RGB(20,20,20),RGB(0,0,0),RGB(0,0,0),			GAUGE_FONT_DEFAULT,GAUGE_WEIGHT_DEFAULT,GAUGE_CHARSET,0,			DT_RIGHT,NULL,			ST360_callback10)PELEMENT_HEADER ST360_ElementList1[] = {&ST360_String10.header,NULL};

:( -Dai

That requires knowledge of which header declares DT_RIGHT to be useable.

WinUser.h by the look of it. An update will follow at some point.-Dai

WinUser.h by the look of it. An update will follow at some point.-Dai

It is defined in winuser.h. Presumably all the other format flags defined in DrawText() should also work?http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162498(VS.85).aspxEDITMaybe not! According to the FSX and ESP SDKs there are three valid entries for the DRAW_TEXT_FLAGS variable:DT_CENTERDT_VCENTERDT_SINGLELINE

I intend to try them to find out.-Dai

:( -Dai

As it turns out, I don't need to right justify the text for this specific string, but since it did work as shown above I thought I'd pass it along... :( What I do need to accomplish is to force my font to be fixed-width, since it is a slighty-slanted digital bold italic font, simulating the old-fashioned segmented displays, which certainly don't wander around the screen... :(

Contact me Bill.

Maybe not! According to the FSX and ESP SDKs there are three valid entries for the DRAW_TEXT_FLAGS variable:DT_CENTERDT_VCENTERDT_SINGLELINE

Over the years I've learned not to trust the SDK from (sometimes) painful experience. As Bill has found, DT_CENTER does work, which is why I'd rather test the others before writing them off.-Dai

Over the years I've learned not to trust the SDK from (sometimes) painful experience. As Bill has found, DT_CENTER does work, which is why I'd rather test the others before writing them off.-Dai

That may well be true, but some people have had a different painful experience by discovering and using undocumented system features only to find that they no longer worked following a system update. If a feature's not documented you can't complain if it stops working at some future time.

Over the years I've learned not to trust the SDK from (sometimes) painful experience. As Bill has found, DT_CENTER does work, which is why I'd rather test the others before writing them off.-Dai

Actually, it was DT_RIGHT that I found out works just fine, as well as the other "official three."

Typo.... ! (So what's new?).-Dai

Update (or necropost, depending on your POV).DT_RIGHT works fine until you combine it with DT_SINGLELINE, at which point it gets ignored. DT_RIGHT also draws the font as proportional. If you want a monospaced, right-biased string you're going to have to figure out a way of padding from the left. Here's a clue: you can create a function that does just that in two lines in C! :( -Dai

I relent.... the work is done in two lines but the check parts take up a bit more. In theory you can calculate the length of the existing string from the strdata parameter but I've found that it's not reliable, hence why I'm passing in the length of the string that needs padding (strlength).

//**************************************************************************//Right-align monospace string (DT_SINGLELINE)// displaysize = length of the display string (MAKE_STRING)// strlength = length of the string to be padded// strdata = string to be right-aligned//**************************************************************************void rightAlign(int displaysize,int strlength,char strdata[256]){	int i=0,j=0;	char newData[256]="";	i=displaysize-strlength;		//Number of blank spaces in the string	if(i>0)	{		for(j=displaysize;j>=0;j--)newData[j]=strdata[j-i];		for(j=0;j<i;j++)newData[j]=' ';		strdata[0]=0;		strncpy(strdata,newData,displaysize);	}	return;}

-Dai

Thanks for the update, Dai. I'm glad you have more time to spare finding such solutions, as I certainly don't have time... :)