Text is rotated when use DrawText() on Bitmap? - c++

Question

I want to draw the text on Bitmap and I did it with the summary code below
BITMAPINFO bitmapInfo;
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biWidth = _imgWidth;
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biHeight = _imgHeight;
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biPlanes = 1;
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biBitCount = 24;
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biSizeImage = 0;
HDC hdc = GetDC(NULL);
if (hdc == NULL)
return false;
HFONT hFont = CreateFont( 50, 0, 0, 0, FW_BOLD, 0, 0, 0, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, 0, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE, "Arial" );
if(hFont == NULL)
return false;
HBITMAP hBitmap = CreateDIBitmap(hdc, (LPBITMAPINFOHEADER) &bitmapInfo.bmiHeader, CBM_INIT, _BRG24arrayIn, (LPBITMAPINFO) &bitmapInfo, DIB_RGB_COLORS);
if(hBitmap == NULL)
return false;
HDC hMemDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);
if (hMemDC == NULL)
return false;
HBITMAP hBitmapOld = (HBITMAP)SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap);
if( hBitmapOld == NULL )
return false;
HFONT hFontOld = (HFONT)SelectObject(hMemDC, hFont);
if ( hFontOld == NULL )
return false;
SetBkMode(hMemDC, TRANSPARENT);
SetTextColor(hMemDC, 0x0000FF00);
RECT rect;
SetRect(&rect, 0, 0, _imgWidth, _imgHeight);
if (DrawText(hMemDC, "11:41:33", -1, &rect, DT_TOP|DT_LEFT) == 0)
return false;
GetDIBits(hdc, hBitmap, 0, _imgHeight, _BRG24arrayOut, (LPBITMAPINFO)&bitmapInfo, DIB_RGB_COLORS);
return true;
The text that I want to draw is "11:41:33" and text alignment is DT_TOP|DT_LEFT
But the result is the text is rotated and occurred on the LEFT-BOTTOM as result image below
The input array _BRG24arrayIn is in BRG24 format, someone can tell me what happen?
Many thanks,
T&TGroup!

Answer 1

You need to negate the height in the BITMAPINFOHEADER structure to get a top-down bitmap (i.e. one where row 0 is at the top rather than the bottom). For example:
bitmapInfo.bmiHeader.biHeight = -_imgHeight;