Application #87. Work with GDI+ Text
You might find it surprising that to display text on a form, PictureBox, or some other surface you need to draw it—but that’s exactly the way it is. This sample shows some of the many features available when using GDI+ to work with text.
Building Upon...Application #85: Work with GDI+ Pens |
New Concepts
Fonts and text are rendered by means of GDI+, and the major method you’ll use to display text to the screen is the DrawString method of the Graphics object. You need four essential items to display text using DrawString:
The text to be displayed
A font in which you want the text displayed
A brush to draw with
The location where it should be displayed, which can be x and y coordinates or a rectangle within ...
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