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Wanna See This Too?

I suppose now would be the time to show you the code for drawing our captions on the screen. I simply added a new function to our shapes module. Here it is ...

I have tried to keep it in the same form as the rest of what I've shown you. The code reads from a few module variables to get the current numbers to draw. It then makes a call to set the font how we want. This isn't anything new I hope. We then set our rectangle for the drawing and make the call. If you don't remember wvsprintfA() is a function that is used for formatting a string buffer ... almost exactly like sprintf().

The other thing I am doing is setting the color we will use. I don't know about you but I prefer to make things a little bit varied and stand-out-ish ( <-- Is that even a word???).

In short, this routine just calls upon a few library routines and pieces things together as needed. I can't remember if I have told you guys, or not ... but programming is like one big jigsaw puzzle. It is just a matter of finding the right pieces and putting them together correctly. There is no one right way to do it and that is why everybody creates different pictures. Make sense?

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