API Question Sketchpad - how do you clip text

[ADSWNJ]

Looking for advice on how to intentionally clip text outside of an arbitrary rectangle on the HUD. For example, shopping the top 8 pixels off a string, if the position straddles the top of window.

Reason: I want to deliver a speed tape on a HUD, and I want the text to slide off the window a pixel-row at a time.

 

[jarmonik]

Looking for advice on how to intentionally clip text outside of an arbitrary rectangle on the HUD. For example, shopping the top 8 pixels off a string, if the position straddles the top of window.
Reason: I want to deliver a speed tape on a HUD, and I want the text to slide off the window a pixel-row at a time.

There is a ClipRect() functionality in Sketchpad2 interface in D3D9. But it's not compatible with D3D7 inline engine. As long as the D3D9 is running you can simply cast a Sketchpad pointer to Sketchpad3 pointer.