Measuring exact size of a string

[EgregioSignore]

Hi all, hope not to be OT here.

I want to write a function that gets the following parameters:

a string "s"
a font "f"

and returns the EXACT width and height of the font.

I tried first with MeasureString but it adds me extra space;
then I tried with MeasureCharacterRanges but I didn't manage
to get rid of an extra space.

I need to have a pair of values that could enable me to draw,
let's say, a bounding box that TOUCHES the string on every border,
no matter how the glyphs are shaped (f.ex. a string with only
a period, ".", should return a very small b.box instead of taking
account of the extra space OVER the dot).

Thanks for your help!

 

[Brendon Bezuidenhout]

Egregio,

Have you looked at the TextRenderer.MeasureText yet? The entire TextRenderer
will return and handle everything I think *grin*

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textrenderer.aspx

HTH
Brendon

 

[MarPrag]

Brendon Bezuidenhout ha scritto:

Egregio,

Have you looked at the TextRenderer.MeasureText yet? The entire
TextRenderer will return and handle everything I think *grin*

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textrenderer.aspx

Yes I actually had, Brendon, but still cannot get
rid of those annoying paddings.
Tried also with NoPadding...

 

[Brendon Bezuidenhout]

It's a known issue:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=844318&SiteID=1

HTH

 

[EgregioSignore]

Brendon Bezuidenhout ha scritto:

It's a known issue:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=844318&SiteID=1

Thanks a lot... SAD, but valuable info