Draws the specified text string in the specified rectangle with the specified System.Drawing.Brush and System.Drawing.Font objects using the formatting attributes of the specified System.Drawing.StringFormat object.
Syntax
'Declaration
Public Overloads Function DrawString( _
ByVal As System.String, _
ByVal As System.Drawing.Font, _
ByVal As System.Drawing.Color, _
ByVal As System.Drawing.RectangleF, _
ByVal As System.Integer, _
ByVal As System.Drawing.StringFormat _
) As System.Integer
public System.int DrawString(
System.string ,
System.Drawing.Font ,
System.Drawing.Color ,
System.Drawing.RectangleF ,
System.int ,
System.Drawing.StringFormat
)
Parameters
- text
- String to draw.
- font
- System.Drawing.Font object that defines the appearance and size of the drawn text.
- color
- The color of the drawn text.
- rc
- The rectangle structure that specifies the location of the drawn text, in points from the top left corner of the page.
- firstChar
- Index of the first character that will be rendered.
- sf
- System.Drawing.StringFormat object that specifies formatting attributes applied to the drawn text.
Return Value
The index of first character that was not printed because it did not fit in the specified rectangle.
See Also