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Find drawn characters under the mouse in C#

Posted on January 20, 2020 by RodStephens

The following examples find the positions of drawn characters in a string that is drawn by using the Graphics object’s DrawString method. Measure character positions in a drawn string in C# Measure character positions when drawing long strings in C# … Continue reading →

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Flow words around drop caps in C#

Posted on August 28, 2019 by RodStephens

The example Flow blocks around obstacles for document layout in C# implements a document layout algorithm that flows blocks around obstacles. Moving from there to flowing words around obstacles is relatively simple. The following sections describe the main places where … Continue reading →

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Flow words around obstacles for document layout in C#

Posted on August 19, 2019 by RodStephens

The example Flow blocks around obstacles for document layout in C# implements a document layout algorithm that flows blocks around obstacles. Moving from there to flowing words around obstacles is relatively simple. The following sections describe the two main places … Continue reading →

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Flow blocks around obstacles for document layout in C#

Posted on August 17, 2019 by RodStephens

The following two document layout examples draw “illuminated” text by using an initial or drop cap. Draw different styles of “illuminated” text in C# Draw “illuminated” text in C# Martin asked how we could do something similar when the text … Continue reading →

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Convert camel case into underscore case in C#

Posted on January 6, 2019 by RodStephens

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of C#-to-python conversion. The style in C# is to use camel case where you capitalize the first letter each each word after the first one in a variable’s name as in thisIsAVariableName. The style … Continue reading →

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Copy ListView data into an array in C#

Posted on June 20, 2018 by RodStephens

This example uses the following ListView extension method to copy ListView data into a two-dimensional array of strings. // Return the ListBox’s contents in a string[,]. public static string[,] GetListViewData(this ListView lvw) { // Get the number of rows and … Continue reading →

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Add LINQ to autocomplete in C#

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Rod Stephens

This example adds LINQ to the example Improve autocomplete suggestion in C#. It adds LINQ in two places: when it loads the list of words and when the program searches for the best matches that begin with a particular letter. … Continue reading →

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Improve autocomplete suggestion in C#

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Rod Stephens

This example improves on the example Suggest autocomplete words in C#. The previous example loads all of its words into a big array. Then, to find the words that start with a particular letter, the program uses a binary search … Continue reading →

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Suggest autocomplete words in C#

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Rod Stephens

This example shows one way that a program can suggest words for the user. When I type something on my phone, it displays a list of possible words for autocomplete below the editing area. For example, if I type “gping” … Continue reading →

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Draw different styles of “illuminated” text in C#

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Rod Stephens

My previous post Draw “illuminated” text in C# showed how to draw “illuminated” text. It drew each paragraph’s initial letter in a large font with a box around it. Real illuminated manuscripts typically make the initial letter much more elaborate. … Continue reading →

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