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The SetTextColor function sets the text color for the specified device context to the specified color.

COLORREF SetTextColor(

Parameters

hdc

Identifies the device context.

crColor

Specifies the color of the text.

Return Values

If the function succeeds, the return value is a color reference for the previous text color.

If the function fails, the return value is CLR_INVALID. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

The text color is used to draw the face of each character written by the TextOut and ExtTextOut functions. The text color is also used in converting bitmaps from color to monochrome and vice versa.

See Also

BitBlt, ExtTextOut, GetTextColor, RGB, SetBkColor, StretchBlt, TextOut 

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