Drawing text efficiency

Question

Hi, I'm working on learning Direct2D and having a bit of a tough time with all the different types of text in C++. I am able to draw text on the screen, but the way I'm doing it seems terribly inefficient. I'm hoping for a suggest on how to improve this, or maybe how to understand handling text better.

Thanks.

Example snippet:

	// take string and convert
	std::string inText = "Hi";
	std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8_utf16<wchar_t>> converter;
	std::wstring wText = converter.from_bytes(inText);
	const wchar_t* text = wText.c_str();

This lets me draw "Hi" on the screen (text), but 4 lines seems like too much just to set up a small word.

Answer 1

Hi, I'm working on learning Direct2D

With Direct2D, you must use DirectWrite

(+ SDK samples : https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/tree/main/Samples/Win7Samples/multimedia/DirectWrite)

with wchar_t* like in SimpleHelloWorld sample, initialized by

 const wchar_t* wszText_;

 wszText_ = L"Hello World using DirectWrite!";