Font.PreloadText Method

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10/15/2009

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Loads formatted text into video memory to improve the efficiency of rendering to a device.

Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.Direct3D
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX (in Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub PreloadText ( _
    value As String _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As Font
Dim value As String

instance.PreloadText(value)

public void PreloadText(
    string value
)

public:
void PreloadText(
    String^ value
)

member PreloadText : 
        value:string -> unit

Parameters

value
Type: System.String
The string of characters to load into video memory.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
InvalidCallException	The method call is invalid. For example, a method's parameter might contain an invalid value.

Remarks

This method does not render text to the device; the DrawText method must still be called to render the text. However, preloading text into video memory causes DrawText to use substantially fewer CPU resources.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

Platforms

Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0