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Drawing Text

Printing text on a Graphics object is very similar to drawing a shape, and the method name even contains the word Draw, in contrast to Print. To draw text on a Graphics object, call the DrawString() method. The basic format for DrawString() looks like this:

						object.DrawString(stringoftext,
						font,
						brush,
						topX,
						leftY);

A few of these items are probably new to you. The argument stringoftext is fairly self-explanatory; it's the string you want to draw on the Graphics object. The topX and leftY arguments represent the coordinate at which drawing will take place; they represent the upper-left corner of the string, as illustrated in Figure 10.4.

Figure 10.4. The coordinate specified in DrawString() represents the upper-left corner of the ...