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Sunday, February 1, 2009

DirectWrite Text Layouts

In experimenting with DirectWrite, I discovered how to apply specific formatting to substrings: DirectWrite text layout objects.

Consider the following code.

m_spBackBufferRT->BeginDraw();

wstring text = L"This is a test of the text rendering services provided by Direct2D and DirectWrite. I am testing the quality and performance of these new APIs. So far, they are proving to be quite nice.";
m_spBackBufferRT->DrawText(text.c_str(), text.length(), m_spTextFormat, D2D1::RectF(0.0f, 0.0f, static_cast<float>(width), static_cast<float>(height)), m_spTextBrush, D2D1_DRAW_TEXT_OPTIONS_NO_CLIP);

m_spBackBufferRT->EndDraw();

The results are as expected.



Now, say I want to render the substrings "Direct2D" and "DirectWrite" in bold. One way would be to use the font metric methods of DirectWrite and render the paragraph in multiple pieces, but this feels a bit too tedious for what I want to do. A better approach would be to use a text layout object.

The following code does the trick.

m_spBackBufferRT->BeginDraw();

wstring text = L"This is a test of the text rendering services provided by Direct2D and DirectWrite. I am testing the quality and performance of these new APIs. So far, they are proving to be quite nice.";

IDWriteTextLayout *m_spTextLayout;
m_spDWriteFactory->CreateTextLayout(text.c_str(), text.length(), m_spTextFormat, width, height, &m_spTextLayout);

{
DWRITE_TEXT_RANGE dtr = {58, 8};
m_spTextLayout->SetFontWeight(DWRITE_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD, dtr);
}

{
DWRITE_TEXT_RANGE dtr = {71, 11};
m_spTextLayout->SetFontWeight(DWRITE_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD, dtr);
}

m_spBackBufferRT->DrawTextLayout(D2D1::Point2F(0.0f, 0.0f), m_spTextLayout, m_spTextBrush);

m_spBackBufferRT->EndDraw();
m_spTextLayout->Release();



It cannot get much simpler than that. All that is needed is to supply a substring range and method-specific argument and we are set.

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