How do I stop clipping?

[Travis Michielsen]

--- Bill Medland <medbi01 at accpac.com> wrote:
> I don't like submitting incomplete code but I may have little choice unless
> someone can point me in the correct direction here.  As you may guess from
> the following, my Windows experience is not that extensive but I think it's
> enough to allow me to make sensible contributions.
> 
> I am working on correcting the LISTVIEW_DrawLargeItem function, especially
> when the item text is large.  I have already got most of the way.  However
> the problem is this.
> 
> When a user selects a large icon the text should be written completely (by
> calling DrawText with DT_NOCLIP).  It is doing so; I can prove it by
> resizing the window and I will see the full text being displayed for a
> selected item.  However when drawing it at the moment of selecting it, the
> text is being clipped to the usual two and a bit rows.  Presumably this
> means that there is a clipping rectangle in the DC or the window that I
> need to inflate.  Or Do I simply invalidate that rectangle (from within the
> WM_PAINT handler!!!).
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Bill

Looking at the DrawText code I see that DrawText just passes the NOCLIP flag to
ExtTextOut, so the problem I likely not with DrawText but with ExtTextOut
instead.  I can take a look at the code for both functions (time providing) and
find out what is happening.

 - Travis Michielsen



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