Writing text with DirectX

[Kryo4lex]

Hi guys , in the last days I read a lot about hooking and how to create a DirectX-overlay.

With the help of many tutorials I managed to create a injectable DLL.

Now I want to Print some text before the EndScene. I also did this with rectangles and it worked.

My problem is that all tutorials I found didn't work at all , or i guess im to stupid

Ok I used this tut from MPGH

 

void PrintText1(double x, double y, DWORD dwColor, LPD3DXFONT pFont, char *Text, ...)
{
	char buffer[256];

	//This is for handling the "..." parameters
    va_list argList;
    va_start(argList, Text);
    vsnprintf_s(buffer, sizeof(buffer), sizeof(buffer) - strlen(buffer), Text, argList);
    va_end(argList);

	//Our Rect to where the text will be printed
    RECT Rect =
	{
		x,
		y,
		x + 500,
		y + 50
	};

    pFont->DrawText(NULL, buffer, -1, &Rect, DT_NOCLIP, dwColor);
}

But always get this Error in Visual Studio 2010:
IntelliSense: argument of type "char *" is incompatible with parameter of type "LPCWSTR"

Ok and then my problem is how to call the function correctly

Have you any other suggestions to display text , or do you know why this isn't working?

THX in advance

[Jason]

Explicitly call DrawTextA instead of the DrawText macro, or change the character set of your project to "multi-byte"

[kibbles18]

Or cast it as LPCWSTR

[Jason]

Or cast it as LPCWSTR

Casting doesn't work. A wide string can't be cast back and forth between to a C-string

[Nico]

Casting doesn't work. A wide string can't be cast back and forth between to a C-string

Not directly but there are ways to do it.

[Jason]

Not directly but there are ways to do it.

I'm aware of that, but I just said a direct cast wouldn't work

[Nico]

I'm aware of that, but I just said a direct cast wouldn't work

Let's discuss more about that.

[Jason]

Let's discuss more about that.

What more is there to discuss?

[lannyboy]

LPCWSTR in msvc++ is wchar_t *.
you should declare UNICODE in your project.

[Jason]

LPCWSTR in msvc++ is wchar_t *.
you should declare UNICODE in your project.

Thanks for being completely redundant. Toddle on.