TextOut
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In computing, TextOut is one of 6 text output functions in the GDI component of the Windows API. It takes an ASCII or Unicode string, and draws it on a graphical device such as a screen. It is the most simple of the 6, requiring only 5 parameters, but it does not appear to be the most commonly used: ExtTextOut provides support for bounding rectangles which is necessary in most applications. DrawText and DrawTextEx provide many complex alignment and formatting options not available in TextOut. PolyTextOut and TabbedTextOut also have their own advantages.
Example
TextOut (hDC, 10, 10, "Hello, Wikipedia", 16);
External links
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_5yd0.asp