Canvas DrawString Text Position (Justification)

[Anthony_G_Cyphers]

I posted code that I use for vertically and horizontally centering text a couple of years ago. Should be trivial to modify it to suit your needs. Be sure to read all the way down for an improved Y positioning calculation.

Canvas1.DrawString vertically centered

You need to account for the baseline of the string using g.FontAscent. Try this in a Canvas’ Paint event: g.DrawingColor = &cff0000 g.DrawRectangle( 0, 0, g.Width, g.Height ) var textToDraw as String = "This is a test string." var textWidth as Double = g.TextWidth( textToDraw ) var textX as Double = (g.Width - textWidth) / 2 var textY as Double = ((g.height - g.TextHeight) / 2) + g.FontAscent g.DrawText( textToDraw, textX, textY, textWidth ) [image]