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Question regarding drawing string

Question regarding drawing string

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cygnusX	18 Mar, 2008 - 11:27 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 19 May, 2007 Posts: 159 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	I'm drawing string at the KeyUp event of a custom control.How to draw special character like empty space or * or # or @ or whatever...I mean when i try to draw for example empty space character the DrawString draws "space" instead of ' '.Obviously i don't want this.How to solve this problem?
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PsychoCoder

RE: Question Regarding Drawing String
18 Mar, 2008 - 11:51 AM

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using DIC.Core;

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You're going to want to use something like

csharp


//create our image
Image test = (Image) new Bitmap(200, 200);

//create our graphic object
Graphics graphic = Graphics.FromImage(test);

//set up our special character (U+00AE = ®)
string character = "\00AE";

//create our font
Font font = new Font(fontFamily,20,style,GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

//create string format
StringFormat sf = new StringFormat();
sf.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.FitBlackBox | 
StringFormatFlags.NoClip | StringFormatFlags.NoWrap;
sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
sf.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center;

// Draw string to image.
gs.DrawString(character, font, Brushes.Black, new PointF(100,100), sf);

That will draw the special character ®

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Martyr2	RE: Question Regarding Drawing String 18 Mar, 2008 - 11:58 AM Post #3
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,660 Thanked: 314 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	What font are you using? Can you also show us the keyup event that you are using to do the drawstring? And any paint event that you may have in place that could also be doing the drawstring. Thanks!
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