DrawText() does not draw

[retry]

If i do pDC->Rectangle(rc); it draws the rectangle correctly where I want to draw the text.

I want to draw text inside this rectangle, it does not draw text (with or without caling Rectangle() function)

pDC->DrawText("Hello", rc, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_LEFT);

This is not working in the first place and my goal is draw the text right aligned.

[PadexArt]

What is the text color? Perhaps you are drawing white on white ( or black on black etc).

[Vanaj]

Are you drawing the text or the rect first ?

[g_gili]

Perhaps you should try this

	CRect rect(50,60,0,0); //in this case is not a normal rect :)
	rect.NormalizeRect();
	pDC.DrawText("Hello",rect, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_LEFT);

[Vanaj]

pDC->DrawText("Hello", rc, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_LEFT);

This is not working in the first place and my goal is draw the text right aligned.

You must use "DT_RIGHT" if you want to right align the text...not "DT_LEFT". At what X-Y position are you trying to draw the text...do you have a MoveTo function call before calling DrawText ?? Can you use TextOut and supply the location of the Text to be printed within the TextOut function call.

[retry]

The points go to g_gili, NormalizeRect() rect fixes the problem.

Sometimes these things are now documented in MSDN that the rect should be normalized before calling DrawText()...can anybody shine light why we need to NormalizeRect()?

[g_gili]

At the NormalizeRect
The following CRect methods require normalized rectangles in order to work properly
....
Width

So I think when you use DrawText() then you have to normalize first the rectangle if you have to that means if (x1>x2 or y1>y2)

CRect rect(50,60,0,0);//in this case the Width() = - 50  at the default maping mode

So I think you can't draw the text when your rectangle width is a negative number .