Hello,

I would like to use ClearType in a Winforms application, and have a couple of questions regarding:

I. Is it possible to set this property on Microsoft's Winforms controls such as text box and rich text box, or do I have to write my own GDI+ controls to draw text with cleartype text rendering hint?

2. Does this issue become irrelevant in Vista? I read somewhere that text smoothing will be afeature set by the OS for default text rendering- not just in the WPF API. So it's a feature controlled by the user at the OS level in Vista and the winforms apps will all have cleartype if OS is set to such.

thanks, Jake

WinForms controls use whatever antialiasing mode is set in Display Properties (on both Windows XP and Windows Vista) so you don't need to do your owndrawing unless you want to override that setting (which you should avoid).

The main difference when it comes to Win XP/Vista is that Vista has ClearType turned on by default while WinXP does not.

Hi,

Is there any way through which I can draw fonts in my winform in CLEARTYPE even if the user has selected otherwise?

Thanks

Hi ,

I solved this issue by over-riding paint method of LABEL and used TextRenderer method of graphics.

That shouldn't be necessary. Does the label have UseCompatibleTextRendering set to true? TextRenderer is a wrapper around GDI text drawing APIs, but if UseCompatibleTextRendering is false controls will use GDI anyway.