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Katie
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Irregular Character Spacing in TextEditor and UltraTextEditor
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I have noticed some irregularities with character spacing when using the Windows Forms TextEditor and the Infragistics UltraTextEditor.

(see attached screenshot)

  • The first control is an UltraFormattedTextEditor; notice that the spacing for the same characters changes from the beginning of the text to the end of the text.
  • The second control is an UltraFormattedTextEdtior and the Third is a TextEditor.  Notice that the whitespace in between the words "This is a TextEditor" and "This is an UltraFormattedTextEditor" is of a different size between the two controls.

Does anyone know if this is being looked at as a bug, or if there is any way of stopping it?

Many Thanks,

Kate

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    This is most likely a result of GDI vs. GDIPlus. You will notice the same discrepency between a TextBox (which uses GDI) and a Label (which uses GDI+) in DotNet.

    The UltraTextEditor has a TextRenderingMode property you can use. There is also a static property that will affect all InfragisticsWinForms controls:

    Infragistics.Win.DrawUtility.UseGDIPlusTextRendering 

    There is also a method in DotNet on the Application object:

    Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);