I am doing a college project and need to display client status in form of coloured * by using an enum with flags...Now i know how the enum works but the problem is I need to show more than one * within the same field (lable or anything else) but each * with a different colour according to the creteria... Now i cant use label.forecolour cause that sets the whole lables' colour... Can anyone give me some advise?
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Jump to PostIs it essental to use a single label? Labels don't have support for multicoloured text, so you can either create a custom user control or override the paint event to draw the *'s in different colours yourself.
It would be easier to have different labels that you simply set …
Jump to Post//attach event handler to Paint event in designer this.label1.Paint += new System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler(this.label1_Paint); //then handle the event in code private void label1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { label1.Text = ""; label1.AutoSize = false; int width = (int)e.Graphics.MeasureString("*", f).Width; Font f = ((Label)sender).Font; label1.Width = (width * 3); Rectangle rect …
Jump to PostVery nice code Ryshad!
You only should swap line 9 and 10 otherwise f is used before it is defined.
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