A User Drawn Symbol Segment allows the developer to take over complete control of the presentation of the symbol segment in the control.
The User Drawn Symbol Segment event fires before each segment of a symbol is painted in the control. The event passes an e argument that contains the following custom properties …
· e.Character (of type Char): The character from the control's Text property.
· e.Graphics (of type System.Drawing.Graphics): A handle to the graphics object responsible for drawing the control. Through the e.Graphics object the developer has access to the GDI+ methods for drawing objects to a display device.
· e.PaintSymbolSegment (of type Boolean): Determines if the internal routines of the control should draw the symbol segment. When the PaintSymbolSegment property is set to False the control does not execute its internal paint routine and the developer has control over the painting of the symbol segment.
· e.Position (of type Integer): The 0-based index of the character within the string assigned to the control's Text property.
· e.Rect (of type System.Drawing.Rectangle): A rectangle representing the area being painted in the control. The rectangle is defined by an X,Y coordinate (top left of rectangle) and a width and height of the area being painted. All values are in pixels.
· e.SymbolSegment (of type enumSymbolSegment): The symbol segment being drawn.