Change colour of _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString

[linknet]

I'm using _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString to draw text on a bitmap image which works fine but I can't get it to draw the text in any other colour than black.

How can I change the colour of text drawn with this function.

[Werty]

Take a look at _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawStringEx() example and change the brush color.

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawStringEx.htm

Edited March 18, 2021 by Werty
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[linknet]

Thanks for the reply, yes, I had seen that but it looked unnecessarily complex. I'd still like to know if it's possible to change the colour using _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString.

[pixelsearch]

I don't know what @UEZ or @jpm think about what follows, but OP's question is an interesting feature and it could be done in a simple way, by adding an optional parameter to Func _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString() . Here is the beginning of the original function as found in GDIPlus.au3

Func _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString($hGraphics, $sString, $nX, $nY, $sFont = "Arial", $fSize = 10, $iFormat = 0)
    Local $hBrush = _GDIPlus_BrushCreateSolid()
    ...
EndFunc   ;==>_GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString

If you just change the 1st line in the function, for example :

Local $hBrush = _GDIPlus_BrushCreateSolid(0xFFFF0000)

Then running the example from the help file would display "Hello world" in red.
If you guys think it's correct, then it could be a possible feature to add to AutoIt

Edit: in that case, allowing the Default keyword for parameters preceding the last one could also be user friendly

Edited March 18, 2021 by pixelsearch

[UEZ]

I would say you should use

_GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawStringEx()

instead to get the feature you want. 😉

[linknet]

Ok, thanks for all the info, it appears that by using _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawString() the colour can't be changed.

So I just need to use _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawStringEx().