TextRenderer::DrawText Method (IDeviceContext^, String^, Font^, Rectangle, Color, Color, TextFormatFlags)
Draws the specified text within the specified bounds using the specified device context, font, color, back color, and formatting instructions.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
public: static void DrawText( IDeviceContext^ dc, String^ text, Font^ font, Rectangle bounds, Color foreColor, Color backColor, TextFormatFlags flags )
Parameters
- dc
-
Type:
System.Drawing::IDeviceContext^
The device context in which to draw the text.
- text
-
Type:
System::String^
The text to draw.
- font
-
Type:
System.Drawing::Font^
The Font to apply to the drawn text.
- bounds
-
Type:
System.Drawing::Rectangle
The Rectangle that represents the bounds of the text.
- foreColor
-
Type:
System.Drawing::Color
The Color to apply to the text.
- backColor
-
Type:
System.Drawing::Color
The Color to apply to the area represented by bounds.
- flags
-
Type:
System.Windows.Forms::TextFormatFlags
A bitwise combination of the TextFormatFlags values.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentNullException | dc is null. |
The backcolor parameter is applied to the area within the bounds parameter. If font, forecolor or backcolor is null or Empty, respectively; the DrawText method will draw the text in the font or color currently selected in the device context specified by dc. If forecolor is Transparent, the text will not be drawn.
You can manipulate how the text is drawn by using one of the DrawText overloads that takes a TextFormatFlags parameter. For example, the default behavior of the TextRenderer is to add padding to the bounding rectangle of the drawn text to accommodate overhanging glyphs. If you need to draw a line of text without these extra spaces you should use the versions of DrawText and MeasureText that take a Size and TextFormatFlags parameter. For an example, see MeasureText(IDeviceContext^, String^, Font^, Size, TextFormatFlags).
The text rendering offered by the TextRenderer class is based on GDI text rendering and is not supported for printing from Windows Forms. Instead, use the DrawString methods of the Graphics class.
The TextRenderer does not support adding tab stops to drawn text, although you can expand existing tab stops using the ExpandTabs flag.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the DrawText method. To run this example, paste the code into a Windows Form and call RenderText8 from the form's Paint event handler, passing e as PaintEventArgs.
Available since 2.0