The default Quickdraw text-drawing routine

#include <Quickdraw.h> Quickdraw

void StdText(byteCnt, textAddr, numerPt, denomPt );

short byteCnt ; number of characters to draw

Ptr textAddr ; address of the buffer containing the text

Point numerPt ; not really " points"; these specify the . . .

Point denomPt ; . . . character scaling factor

This is Quickdraw's default low-level routine for drawing text. It draws

starting at the pnLoc using txFont, txFace, txMode, and txSize specified in the

byteCnt specifies the number of characters to draw.

textAddr is the address of a buffer containing the characters to be drawn. The

buffer should contain at least byteCnt characters.

denomPt specify the horizontal and vertical scaling factors to be applied to

each character. The character is scaled horizontally by the ratio of

numerPt.h / denomPt.h; it is scaled vertically by the ratio of

Notes: Use StdText only if your application intercepts the Quickdraw bottleneck

StdText performs no line-wrapping, nor does it take any special action

for control codes, such as linefeed or carriage return. The first character

is drawn with its base line starting at the current value of pnLoc, and the

pen is advanced horizontally toward the right. Output is clipped to the

portBits.bounds, portRect, visRgn, and clipRgn.

The text is drawn according to the txFont, txFace (style), txMode (a source

transfer mode), txSize (a font size in typo graphical points), and spExtra

(expand/condense factor) fields of the current grafPort. As a bonus, each

character is scaled by a horizontal and vertical ratio. To specify no scaling,

use the same non-zero values for numerPt and denomPt:; e.g.,

Typical usage is to let the StdTxMeas function set or change the numerPt

and denomPt values before making this call.

By creating a custom version of StdText and StdTxMeas (for instance,

versions that handle only one or two fonts/sizes), an application may be