Charting for WinForms Programmer's Guide
IGraphics.MeasureString Method (String, Font, SizeF, StringFormat)
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Measures the specified string when drawn with the specified Font object and formatted with the specified StringFormat object.

Namespace: MindFusion.Drawing
Assembly: MindFusion.Common

 Syntax

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SizeF MeasureString (
    string text,
    Font font,
    SizeF layoutArea,
    StringFormat stringFormat
)

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Function MeasureString( _
    text As String, _
    font As Font, _
    layoutArea As SizeF, _
    stringFormat As StringFormat _
) As SizeF

 Parameters

text
The string to measure.
font
A .NET Font object defines the text format of the string.
layoutArea
A .NET SizeF structure that specifies the maximum layout area for the text.
stringFormat
A .NET StringFormat object that represents formatting information, such as line spacing, for the string.

 Return Value

This method returns a .NET SizeF structure that represents the size, in pixels, of the string specified in the text parameter as drawn with the font parameter and the stringFormat parameter.

 See Also

MeasureString Method Overload List
IGraphics Members
IGraphics Interface
MindFusion.Drawing Namespace