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Tag Archives: MeasureCharacterRanges
Draw text on a circle in C#
This example uses some of the techniques described in the post Measure character positions when drawing long strings in C# to draw text on a circle. The previous post explains how to determine where the characters in a string will … Continue reading
Posted in algorithms, fonts, geometry, graphics, strings
Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, characters, circle, circular text, draw string, draw text, draw text on circle, example, example program, fonts, geometry, graphics, measure characters, MeasureCharacterRanges, strings, text on a circle, text on circle, Windows Forms programming
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Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 4
The previous post showed how to make a sunburst chart with curved text. This example extends that one so it can draw multi-line text. The previous post used the DrawTextOnArc method to draw curved text. The text is a distance … Continue reading
Posted in drawing, graphics, mathematics
Tagged angled text, C#, C# programming, charts, curved text, data analysis, drawing, example, example program, graphics, graphs, mathematics, MeasureCharacterRanges, multiline text, path text, rotated text, sunburst, sunburst chart, sunburst diagram, text that follows a path, Windows Forms programming
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Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 3
The post Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 1 shows how to build a basic sunburst chart. The post Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 2 enhances that example by drawing each node’s text at an angle so … Continue reading
Posted in drawing, graphics, mathematics
Tagged angled text, C#, C# programming, charts, curved text, data analysis, drawing, example, example program, graphics, graphs, mathematics, MeasureCharacterRanges, path text, rotated text, sunburst, sunburst chart, sunburst diagram, text that follows a path, Windows Forms programming
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Measure character positions when drawing long strings in C#
The example Measure character positions in a drawn string in C# uses the Graphics class’s MeasureCharacterRanges method to find the positions where characters in a string will be drawn. Unfortunately this method requires you to call a StringFormat object’s SetMeasurableCharacterRanges … Continue reading
Posted in algorithms, drawing, fonts, graphics, strings
Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, characters, draw strings, draw text, drawing, example, example program, fonts, graphics, measure characters, MeasureCharacterRanges, SetMeasurableCharacterRanges, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Draw text in random colors in C#
This example shows how you can draw text in random colors. The example Measure character positions in a drawn string in C# shows how to determine where the characters in a string will be drawn. This example uses similar code … Continue reading
Posted in drawing, fonts, graphics, strings
Tagged AntiAlias StringFormat, C#, C# programming, colored text, colors, draw hollow text, draw text, drawing, DrawPath, example, example program, FillPath, fonts, graphics, GraphicsPath, hollow text, measure text, MeasureCharacterRanges, random colors, random lines, SmoothingMode, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Get font metrics in C#
The Font and FontFamily classes provide lots of information about a font’s metrics, but that information is kind of hard to understand. The following list describes the key metrics. Internal Leading – Space above the characters that is still considered … Continue reading
Posted in algorithms, drawing, fonts, graphics, strings
Tagged algorithms, ascent, C#, C# programming, cell height, characters, descent, draw string, draw text, drawing, em height, example, example program, external leading, font ascent, font descent, font metrics, fonts, graphics, internal leading, MeasureCharacterRanges, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Measure character positions in a drawn string in C#
You can use the Graphics class’s MeasureCharacterRanges method to measure character positions in a drawn string. This method returns information about the regions where strings of characters would be drawn by the Graphics object’s DrawString method. The DrawStringWithCharacterBounds method shown … Continue reading
Posted in algorithms, drawing, fonts, graphics, strings
Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, characters, draw string, draw text, drawing, example, example program, fonts, graphics, measure characters, MeasureCharacterRanges, SetMeasurableCharacterRanges, strings, Windows Forms programming
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