Template:mIRC menu The /drawtext command draws text at the specified co-ordinates. If you use a negative number for the font size, it will match the size of fonts in the font dialog. The /drawtext command will use some default options for anti-aliasing that you cannot change (yet), meaning that a text drawn in black may not be drawn only using the expected color, this can be a real concern when using /drawfill to fill an area with text inside it.

Synopsis

/drawtext -hnrpboc <@win> <color> [color] [fontname fontsize] <x y [w h]> <text>

Switches

• -p - processes and interprets control codes in the text
• -b - indicates that you have specified the second color parameter as the background color for the text
• -o - means the specified font should be in bold
• -c - means that you have specified the [w h] values as the rectangle in which text should be printed. Text will be clipped if it extends beyond this rectangle
• -h - highlights the windows icon if it is minimized
• -n - prevents the display from being updated immediately
• -r - indicates that the colors are in RGB format

Parameters

• <@win> - the window's name
• <color> - the foreground color
• [color] - the background color, if -b has been specified
• [fontname fontsize] - the name of the font and the size of the font
• <x y [w h]> - the coordinate of the text
• <text> - the text to be drawn

Example

drawtext -rn @mygame 0 verdana 20 30 30 the fps is: 60

Compatibility

Added: 5.3

See also

• List of commands
• List of identifiers
• $width
• $height

mIRC commands list

A /abook, /action, /add, /ajinvite, /alias, /aline, /ame, /amsg, /anick, /aop, /auser, /auto, /autojoin, /avoice, /away B /background, /ban, /bcopy, /beep, /bindip, /bread, /break, /breplace, /bset, /btrunc, /bunset, /bwrite C /channel, /clear, /clearall, /clearial, /cline, /clipboard, /close, /closechats, /closedccs, /closefserves, /closemsg, /cnick, /color, /colour, /comclose, /comlist, /commands, /comopen, /comreg, /continue, /copy, /creq, /ctcp, /ctcpreply, /ctcps	D /dcc, /dccserver, /dde, /ddeserver, /debug, /dec, /describe, /dialog, /did, /didtok, /disable, /disconnect, /dlevel, /dline, /dll, Template:mIRC/donotdisturb, /dns, /dqwindow, /drawcopy, /drawdot, /drawfill, /drawline, /drawpic, /drawrect, /drawreplace, /drawrot, /drawsave, /drawscroll, /drawsize /drawtext E /ebeeps, /echo, /editbox, /else, /elseif, /emailaddr, /enable, /events, /exit F /fclose, /filter, /findtext, /finger, /firewall, /flash, /flist, /flood, /flush, /flushini, /fnord, /font, /fopen, /fseek, /fsend, /fserve, /fullname, /fupdate, /fwrite	G /ghide, /gload, /gmove, /gopts, /goto, /gplay, /gpoint, /gqreq, /groups, /gshow, /gsize, /gstop, /gtalk, /gunload, /guser H /hadd, /halt, /haltdef, /hdec, /hdel, /help, /hfree, /hinc, /hload, /hmake, /hotlink, /hop, /hsave I /ial, /ialclear, /ialmark, /identd, /if, /ignore, /iline, /inc, /iuser J /join L /leave, /linesep, /links, /list, /load, /loadbuf, /localinfo, /log, /logview M /maxdepth, /mdi, /me, /menubar, /mkdir, /mnick, /mode, /msg N /noop, /notice, /notify
O /onotice, /omsg P /pareline, /part, /partall, /pdcc, /perform, /play, /playctrl, /pop, /protect, /proxy, /pvoice Q /qme, /qmsg, /query, /queryrn, /quit, /quote R /raw, /registration, /reload, /remini, /remote, /remove, /rename, /renwin, /reseterror, /resetidle, /return, /returnex, /rlevel, /rline, /rmdir, /run, /ruser	S /save, /savebuf, /saveini, /say, /scid, /scon, /server, /set, /setlayer, /showmirc, /signal, /sline, /sockaccept, /sockclose, /socklist, /socklisten, /sockmark, /sockopen, /sockpause, /sockread, /sockrename, /sockudp, /sockwrite, /sound, /speak, /splay, /sreq, /strip, /switchbar T /timer, /timestamp, /tip, /tips, /titlebar, /tnick, /tokenize, /toolbar, /topic /tray, /treebar	U /ulist, /unload, /unset, /unsetall, /updatenl, /url, /username, /uwho V /var, /vcadd, /vcmd, /vcrem, /vol W /wallchops, /wavplay, /while, /window, /winhelp, /write, /writeini X /xyzzy