StringFormatFlags

System.Drawing.StringFormatFlags

Namespace: System.Drawing

Assembly: System.Drawing.Managed (4.0.0.0)

Specifies the display and layout information for text strings.

C#

public enum StringFormatFlags : Enum

VB.NET

Fields

Name	Description
DirectionRightToLeft	Specifies that text is right to left.
DirectionVertical	Specifies that text is vertical.
DisplayFormatControl	Causes control characters such as the left-to-right mark to be shown in the output with a representative glyph.
FitBlackBox	Specifies that no part of any glyph overhangs the bounding rectangle. By default some glyphs overhang the rectangle slightly where necessary to appear at the edge visually. For example when an italic lower case letter f in a font such as Garamond is aligned at the far left of a rectangle, the lower part of the f will reach slightly further left than the left edge of the rectangle. Setting this flag will ensure no painting outside the rectangle but will cause the aligned edges of adjacent lines of text to appear uneven. WARNING: The GDI+ equivalent for this is StringFormatFlags::StringFormatFlagsNoFitBlackBox, which is defined as 0x4. This was a mistake introduced since the first version of the product and fixing it at this point would be a breaking change. ne-gdiplusenums-stringformatflags
LineLimit	Specifies that only entire lines are laid out in the layout rectangle. By default, layout continues until the end of the text or until no more lines are visible as a result of clipping, whichever comes first. The default settings allow the last line to be partially obscured by a layout rectangle that is not a whole multiple of the line height. To ensure that only whole lines are seen, set this flag and be careful to provide a layout rectangle at least as tall as the height of one line.
MeasureTrailingSpaces	Specifies that the space at the end of each line is included in a string measurement.
NoClip	Specifies that characters overhanging the layout rectangle and text extending outside the layout rectangle are allowed to show. By default, all overhanging characters and text that extends outside the layout rectangle are clipped. Any trailing spaces (spaces that are at the end of a line) that extend outside the layout rectangle are clipped. Therefore, the setting of this flag will have an effect on a string measurement if trailing spaces are being included in the measurement. If clipping is enabled, trailing spaces that extend outside the layout rectangle are not included in the measurement. If clipping is disabled, all trailing spaces are included in the measurement, regardless of whether they are outside the layout rectangle.
NoFontFallback	Disables fallback to alternate fonts for characters not supported in the requested font. Any missing characters are displayed with the fonts missing glyph, usually an open square.
NoWrap	Specifies that the wrapping of text to the next line is disabled. NoWrap is implied when a point of origin is used instead of a layout rectangle. When drawing text within a rectangle, by default, text is broken at the last word boundary that is inside the rectangle's boundary and wrapped to the next line.

Used By

Name	Description
StringFormat.FormatFlags	Gets or sets a StringFormatFlags enumeration that contains formatting information.