Questions tagged [measurestring]
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"A generic error occurred in GDI+" while using MeasureString
I have an overriden (WinForms) MemoEdit control (unfortunately I can't give you the code).
If I enter more than 32000 characters, it raises an error "A generic error occurred in GDI+"
I thought that there's an error (exception) in my control but…
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How do I implement word wrap?
XNA has Spritefont class, which has a MeasureString method, which can return the Width and Height of a string. I'm trying to understand how to create a method that will efficiently return a string with Environment.Newline inserted in the right…
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Does/can the Graphics MeasureString method take the width of the container and line wrapping into account?
I have a need to calculate the height of a string given that I already know the width.
For example if have a string like "Curabitur semper ipsum semper nulla dictum, vel vulputate elit fringilla. Donec nec placerat purus, ut blandit lectus.…
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Get height of row where the cells have WrapText set
I am trying to compute the height of the row I'm inserting into my excel sheet. The row's cells are formatted with WrapText=true, so the height of the row is not fixed.
Accessing row.Height will return null.
I was thinking of using something similar…
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GDI+ MeasureString() is incorrectly trimming text
I am trying to complete a code that can layout text on the screen. The following C# code placed in the Paint event handler of an otherwise empty Windows Form is an example:
string[] s = new string[] { "Sample text ", "to test", " this layout ",…
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How to compute the correct width of a digit in pixels?
I have a custom control that may have user customizable Font in future (the zoom is already implemented). I must fill a rectangle under two digits that form a base-10 number. I have different colors for zero, one or both of the digits.
With the font…
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C# Does a label ignore whitespaces when querying MeasureString?
I have been trying to find an error in a ticker tape type application.
Hopefully this background is not to long.
Background:
The ticker tape needs to display characters starting from the right and then scroll to the left.
I need to use a label (or…
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How to estimate the length of a to-be-printed string?
I am trying to estimate the length of a printed string.
Font newFont = new Font("Arial", 12, FontStyle.Bold, GraphicsUnit.Point);
label1.Font = newFont;
labe1.Text = "300028";
Graphics g = Graphics.FromHwnd(label1.Handle);
SizeF txtSize =…
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Fit the text inside a TextBox in VB.net windows forms
In one of my application i require to place the text inside a textbox and textbox width and height must change according to the length of text. So i am using
TextSize = gr.MeasureString(textcontent, TextFont)
where textcontent is content of text…
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System.Drawing.Graphics trim end of string?
While working on a text render algorithm, I stumbled across a strange behavior of the Graphics.MeasureString() method.
It seems like it internally trims the end of a string.
g.MeasureString("d", font).Width //is 13.289278
g.MeasureString("d ",…
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Custom Measure String in C# without Graphics.MeasureString
I am trying to create an Image with a Caption/Text on it for Youtube-Thumbnails.
Following Rules are defined:
The Text is the Title of the Video and always changes from Thumbnail to Thumbnail.
The Porgram uses a pre-defined Text-Width which must…
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Why Graphics.MeasureString measures Arabic strring incorrectly?
I have an Arabic string, which is result of concatenation of Arabic string and " : 100". This string is measured and drawn incorrectly. Why?
public partial class Form1 : Form {
string strIncorrectMeasure = "مەھسۇلات باھاسى" + " : " +…
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Generic function to return String measure (Graphics.MeasureString)
In C# or VB.NET how I could write a generic function which only should need to pass a string and a font to return the measure of the font?
This is What I've tried:
Private Function Get_Text_Measure(ByVal text As String, _
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MeasureString() doesn't return enough width
I have the following code to create a Label on a PictureBox:
Label l = new Label();
l.Text = _name;
l.Size = CreateGraphics().MeasureString(_name, l.Font).ToSize();
l.BackColor = Color.White;
but the label is always dropping the last character. If…
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