Graphics Arrggghhh!

[T Clancey]

Hi.

I got around my previous problem by creating a bitmap references to a
graphic where I draw my string, I then set the image of the picture box to
the bitmap.

This works, although it's a little clumbsy, I now have reference to 15 of
each in code, couldn't see a way to dynamically create the objects with the
dymanically created picture boxes. Never mind, I can cope with this for the
time being.

I'm now stuck with getting the dimensions of the DrawString result.

As I'm creating the Bitmap objects before anything happens I have to give
them dimensions. I then draw my string, say, on a 500 x 500 bitmap. But, I
need to reduce the size of the bitmap or picture box to the size of the
DrawString result.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Tull.

 

[Stuart Nathan]

Trying to understand what you are doing. Would this be correct?

Public Class MyControl
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Panel

' somewhere in your code
Dim gr as Graphics = CreateGraphics
Dim z as SizeF = gr.Measurestring(mytext, font)
gr.Dispose
Dim bmp as Bitmap(cint(z.Width),cint(z.Height))
gr = Graphics.FromImage(bmp)
gr.DrawString(mytext, font)
gr.Dispose
BackGroundImage = bmp