Drawstring Text width

[Cliff Lane]

I am just getting into the area of printing and I am trying to determine the
maximum drawing width that a text field of 25 characters will take up so I
can right align the next field. Is there something comparable to the
textwidth method of vb 6 that will give me this information?

Thanks

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Take a look at the graphics.measurestring method.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...temdrawinggraphicsclassmeasurestringtopic.asp

Ken

 

[Greg Burns]

Will Graphics.MeasureString method give you what you want?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am just getting into the area of printing and I am trying to determine the
maximum drawing width that a text field of 25 characters will take up so I
can right align the next field. Is there something comparable to the
textwidth method of vb 6 that will give me this information?

'Graphics.MeasureString':

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...temdrawinggraphicsclassmeasurestringtopic.asp>

\\\
Dim g As Graphics = Label1.CreateGraphics()
Dim s As SizeF = _
g.MeasureString(Label1.Text, Label1.Font, Label1.Width, StringFormat.GenericTypographic)
g.Dispose()
///

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am just getting into the area of printing and I am trying to determine the
maximum drawing width that a text field of 25 characters will take up so I
can right align the next field. Is there something comparable to the
textwidth method of vb 6 that will give me this information?

Have a look at 'e.Graphics' in the 'PrintDocument''s 'PrintPage' event
handler. You can use 'Graphics' object's 'MeasureString' method there
to get the size of the text, and you can specify the alignment in the
'DrawString' method.