Microsoft KB Archive/33018

= DrawText Faster Than PRINT, Output to Screen or Printer =

Article ID: 33018

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006



This article was previously published under Q33018



SUMMARY
If output to the screen or WINDOW OUTPUT# to the printer is slow, use the DrawText toolbox routine instead of PRINT statements. DrawText is much faster than the BASIC PRINT statement. PRINT outputs each character individually, whereas DrawText outputs an entire string of characters at once. However, you will still need to use PRINT for number formatting or carriage returns.

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Keywords: KB33018

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