Tag Archives: MeasureCharacterRanges

Draw text on a circle in C#

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Rod Stephens

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 | 1 Comment

Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 4

Posted on April 7, 2017 by RodStephens

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 | Leave a comment

Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 3

Posted on April 6, 2017 by RodStephens

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 | 1 Comment

Measure character positions when drawing long strings in C#

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Rod Stephens

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 | 2 Comments

Draw text in random colors in C#

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Rod Stephens

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 | 2 Comments

Get font metrics in C#

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Rod Stephens

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 | 2 Comments

Measure character positions in a drawn string in C#

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Rod Stephens

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 →