Getting CView window width for text line-breaking in MFC

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Are there any good sites for MFC programming help? (THat's Microsoft Foundation Classes - C++ version 6.0 to be specific).

In case anyone here can help:

I'm trying to find the width of a MFC CView window, so I can do line-breaking in the ondraw() function, so that my displayed text lines fit the window.

Unfortunately taking the device context pointer pDC and evaulating pDC->GetWindowExtent() gives me a size of 1,1. Since I was in the default mode MM_TEXT, I thought I should get a window size in pixels. I don't know if I'm using the wrong function, or have set anything up wrong in the window (but most everything about the window the APPwizard default for SDI (single document) application).

 

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Try this:

RECT rect;
GetClientRect(&rect);
int width = rect.right - rect.left;
int height = rect.bottom - rect.top;