TextMetrics Structure
Provides basic information about the font specified by a visual style for a particular element.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Ascent | Gets or sets the ascent of characters in the font. |
![]() | AverageCharWidth | Gets or sets the average width of characters in the font. |
![]() | BreakChar | Gets or sets the character used to define word breaks for text justification. |
![]() | CharSet | Gets or sets the character set of the font. |
![]() | DefaultChar | Gets or sets the character to be substituted for characters not in the font. |
![]() | Descent | Gets or sets the descent of characters in the font. |
![]() | DigitizedAspectX | Gets or sets the horizontal aspect of the device for which the font was designed. |
![]() | DigitizedAspectY | Gets or sets the vertical aspect of the device for which the font was designed. |
![]() | ExternalLeading | Gets or sets the amount of extra leading that the application adds between rows. |
![]() | FirstChar | Gets or sets the first character defined in the font. |
![]() | Height | Gets or sets the height of characters in the font. |
![]() | InternalLeading | Gets or sets the amount of leading inside the bounds set by the Height property. |
![]() | Italic | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the font is italic. |
![]() | LastChar | Gets or sets the last character defined in the font. |
![]() | MaxCharWidth | Gets or sets the width of the widest character in the font. |
![]() | Overhang | Gets or sets the extra width per string that may be added to some synthesized fonts. |
![]() | PitchAndFamily | Gets or sets information about the pitch, technology, and family of a physical font. |
![]() | StruckOut | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the font specifies a horizontal line through the characters. |
![]() | Underlined | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the font is underlined. |
![]() | Weight | Gets or sets the weight of the font. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Equals(Object^) | Indicates whether this instance and a specified object are equal.(Inherited from ValueType.) |
![]() | GetHashCode() | Returns the hash code for this instance.(Inherited from ValueType.) |
![]() | GetType() | |
![]() | ToString() | Returns the fully qualified type name of this instance.(Inherited from ValueType.) |
The TextMetrics structure specifies the return values of the VisualStyleRenderer::GetTextMetrics method.
Available since 2.0
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

