Headers and footers

[The Iceman]

I'm fairly new to printing in VC, but I'm having a heckuva time getting a footer to print at the bottom of my pages. I can get it to work if I hardcode the X,Y positions, but trying to code something that will work on any paper size is getting difficult and frustrating. Anyone have examples or source for doing this?

[Todd Jeffreys]

RECT rt;
GetClientRect(hWnd,&rt);

then use rt.bottom as your far bottom, and rt.top as the top. THen you can figure it out pretty easily.

[The Iceman]

Actually, I finally figured it out before reading the reply. Here's the code I'm using:


// Get the size of the printable area
CDCSize = pDC->GetWindowExt();

// Get current date/time and format it. Place it at the bottom left
// of the page
time = CTime::GetCurrentTime();
strDateTime = time.Format(_T("Printed on %B %d, %Y at %#I:%M%p"));
sizeString = pDC->GetTextExtent(strDateTime);

// left-justified
pDC->TextOut(0, -CDCSize.cy + sizeString.cy, strDateTime);

// Print out which page we're on. Place it at the bottom right of
// the page
strPage.Format("Page %d of %d", m_nPage, MaxPages);
sizeString = pDC->GetTextExtent(strPage);

// right-justified
pDC->TextOut(CDCSize.cx - sizeString.cx, -CDCSize.cy + sizeString.cy, strPage);




Thanks for the help and the reply!