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How to: Draw Text to a Control's Background |
03/30/2017 |
.net-framework |
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wpickett |
How to: Draw Text to a Control's Background
You can draw text directly to the background of a control by converting a text string to a xref:System.Windows.Media.FormattedText object, and then drawing the object to the control's xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingContext. You can also use this technique for drawing to the background of objects derived from xref:System.Windows.Controls.Panel, such as xref:System.Windows.Controls.Canvas and xref:System.Windows.Controls.StackPanel.

Example of controls with custom text backgrounds
Example
To draw to the background of a control, create a new xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingBrush object and draw the converted text to the object's xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingContext. Then, assign the new xref:System.Windows.Media.DrawingBrush to the control's background property.
The following code example shows how to create a xref:System.Windows.Media.FormattedText object and draw to the background of a xref:System.Windows.Controls.Label and xref:System.Windows.Controls.Button object.
[!code-csharpDrawTextToControlBackground#DrawTextToControlBackground1]
See Also
xref:System.Windows.Media.FormattedText
Drawing Formatted Text