How can drawString method be used for writing diagonal way.
Hi, I am using c# 2005 i want to write string diagonally on image. But by default c# provides the option to write horizontally or vertically. how we write diagonally? Thanks ...
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GDI+: MeasureString() pads the text on the left and the right
I'm using GDI+ in C++. (This issue might exist in C# too). I notice that whenever I call Graphics::MeasureString() or Graphics::DrawString(), the string is padded with blank space on the left and right. For example, if I am using a Courier font, (not italic!) and I measure "P" I get 90, but "PP" gives me 150. I would expect a monosp...
Text Alignment on OwnerDraw Tooltip in C# / .NET
I have a multiline text string (e.g. "Stuff\nMore Stuff\nYet More Stuff"), and I want to paint it, along with a bitmap into a tooltip. Since I am painting the bitmap, I need to set OwnerDraw to true, which I am doing. I am also handling the Popup event, so I can size the tooltip to be large enough to hold the text and the bitmap. I am ...
How do I draw double height text using Graphics.DrawString?
I am trying to emulate a POS printer with System.Drawing and one of the functions I need is to draw text at double height. Any idea how I can do this using .Net's Graphics class? Do I need to draw the text twice as large and condense it or draw normal size and then stretch? Both seem like messy options but is there an alternative? ...
Smallcaps / multiple fonts and bolding using 'DrawString' in GDI+
I want to write out some text using smallcaps in combination with different fonts for different words. To clarify I might want the message 'Welcome to our New Website' which is generated into a PNG file for the header of a page. The text will be smallcaps - everything is capitalized but the 'W', 'N' and 'W' are slightly larger. The 'N...
How to get Words length and height, when drawing the images on a canvas in GDI+
I draw a string on a canvas, using GDI+ in C++. Is there any API to get the out layer (width, height ) of a string in a certain font? Thanks very much! Many thanks to Windows programmer's solution. I wrote the following code. Bitmap bitmap(1000,1000); Graphics graphics(&bitmap); RectF rec; RectF useless; graphics.MeasureString(m_sW...
Preventing Color Bleed when using Graphics.Drawstring()?
Hi, How do I prevent colors form bleeding into one another when using the vb .net Graphics.Drawstring method. This Occurs with colors that really shouldnt be used together eg green/orange and black and red. Thanks ...
Why is DrawString exhibiting unexpected behavior in C# Winforms?
I have subclassed a control in C# WinForms, and am custom drawing text in my OnPaint() handler. The font is set to Courier New using the following code in my form: FontFamily family = new FontFamily("Courier New"); this.myControl.Font = new Font(family, 10); In the control itself, the string is stored in realText, and I use the follow...
C# How to draw in front of objects?
Hi How do you draw a string that is supposed to be on top of everything else? Right now in my panel i have some user controls in Panel1.Controls. So i added this to the Paint method: Graphics g = Panel1.CreateGraphics(); g.DrawString("BUSTED", new Font("Arial", 20f), new SolidBrush(Color.Black), new PointF(50, 50)); The problem is ...
PdfSharp: Text height/positioning problem
Whether I use XTextFormatter or not, I get the same error about the LayoutRectangle having to have a height of 0 or something like this. new PdfSharp.Drawing.Layout.XTextFormatter(_gfx).DrawString(text , new PdfSharp.Drawing.XFont(fontName, fontSize, (PdfSharp.Drawing.XFontStyle)fontStyle) , new PdfSharp.Drawing.XSolidBrush(Pd...
Black border around characters when draw Image to a transparent Bitmap
I have to draw a String on a transparent bitmap at first, then draw A to destination canvas. However on certain case, there is black border around the characters. Bitmap* tempImg = new Bitmap(1000, 1000, PixelFormat32bppARGB); Graphics tempGr(tempImg); tempGr.Clear(Color(0, 255,255,255)); Gdiplus::SolidBrush* brush = new SolidBrush(Colo...
How do I write rows and columns with drawString in Java
public void drawboard(Graphics g){ g.setColor(Color.yellow); for (int row = 0; row < board.length; row++){ for (int col = 0; col < board[row].length; col++){ g.drawString("X", col, row); } } All I get is a yellow square that is 35x30 (variables for row and col in another part of the progr...
Graphics DrawString with controlled Word Wrap
Basically my issue is that I need to word wrap a string when I want to. Not when .NET wants to. I understand that the DrawString method will automatically word wrap if I give it a rectangle to draw within. I need to control when it does word wrap it. So lets say my string I want to draw is Testing 1234. And I want to draw text on a new l...
Disable word breaking when wrapping lines in .NET DrawString
Hello, I am using .NET to draw a string into a limited space. I want the string to be as big as possible. I have no problem in the string breaking up into more lines (if it stays inside the rectangle). Now the problem: I don't want .NET to break the string in different lines in the middle of a word. For example string "Test" prints on a...
Java Graphics2D DrawString....
Hey guys I have a little issue here. I have a panel where I am drawing a string. This is a game so I keep redrawing the score in order to update it. However when I draw it again it is drawn on top of the previous score so it looked all garbled up. Any ideas how to fix this? comp2d.drawString(GetScore(Score),ScoreX,ScoreY); ...
Graphics.MeasureCharacterRanges giving wrong size calculations in C#.Net?
I'm trying to render some text into a specific part of an image in a Web Forms app. The text will be user entered, so I want to vary the font size to make sure it fits within the bounding box. I have code that was doing this fine on my proof-of-concept implementation, but I'm now trying it against the assets from the designer, which are...
Resize Rectangle based on text
Hello, I am working on a custom control where I am using Rectangle to show some data. Now, lets say the width and height of the rectangle is set to 100. If I have less amount of data, then its fine, I can make it draw using DrawString method. But, sometimes Data is bigger and so it gets clipped. I have tried using MeasureString Method,...
ListBoxItem words drawing help
Hi Guys, i am re-drawing the listitem text in DrawItem to make a single word bold. so far no luck. can anyone tell me how to do this please? would be a great help. thanks string[] lines = Regex.Split("Some text message here", @"\W+"); foreach (string word in lines) { Font font = e.Font; if(word = "text") font = new Font(e.Font,...
Fix text stretching when printing to a receipt printer with Java.
I am printing to some Epson receipt printers by implementing the Java Printable and placing my code into the print method. To draw the text to the printer I use Graphics2D.drawString. I am also drawing a rect to the printer to see how to compares to the text size when printing to other printers. When printing to the receipt printer the t...
DrawString with character wrapping
Hi all, I'm creating a fatal error dialog for a Windows Mobile Application using C#. The problem is when I try to draw the stacktrace using DrawString, half of my stacktrace is getting clipped off because DrawString uses word wrapping instead of character wrapping. For those who don't understand the explanation: When i draw the stackt...