FontFamily.GetCellDescent(FontStyle) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Drawing

Assembly:

System.Drawing.Common.dll

Source:

FontFamily.cs

Returns the cell descent, in design units, of the FontFamily of the specified style.

public:
 int GetCellDescent(System::Drawing::FontStyle style);

public int GetCellDescent (System.Drawing.FontStyle style);

member this.GetCellDescent : System.Drawing.FontStyle -> int

Public Function GetCellDescent (style As FontStyle) As Integer

Parameters

style

FontStyle

A FontStyle that contains style information for the font.

Returns

Int32

The cell descent metric for this FontFamily that uses the specified FontStyle.

Examples

The following code example is designed for use with Windows Forms, and it requires PaintEventArgs e, which is a parameter of the Paint event handler. The code performs the following actions:

• Creates a FontFamily.

• Gets the cell descent for that font family.

• Draws the value of the cell descent to the screen as text.

public:
   void GetCellDescent_Example( PaintEventArgs^ e )
   {
      // Create a FontFamily object.
      FontFamily^ descentFontFamily = gcnew FontFamily( "arial" );

      // Get the cell descent of the font family in design units.
      int cellDescent = descentFontFamily->GetCellDescent( FontStyle::Regular );

      // Draw the result as a string to the screen.
      e->Graphics->DrawString( String::Format( "descentFontFamily.GetCellDescent() returns {0}.", cellDescent ),
            gcnew System::Drawing::Font( descentFontFamily,16 ), Brushes::Black, PointF(0,0) );
   }

public void GetCellDescent_Example(PaintEventArgs e)
{
    // Create a FontFamily object.
    FontFamily descentFontFamily = new FontFamily("arial");
             
    // Get the cell descent of the font family in design units.
    int cellDescent = descentFontFamily.GetCellDescent(FontStyle.Regular);
             
    // Draw the result as a string to the screen.
    e.Graphics.DrawString(
        "descentFontFamily.GetCellDescent() returns " + cellDescent.ToString() + ".",
        new Font(descentFontFamily, 16),
        Brushes.Black,
        new PointF(0, 0));
}

Public Sub GetCellDescent_Example(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)

    ' Create a FontFamily object.
    Dim descentFontFamily As New FontFamily("arial")

    ' Get the cell descent of the font family in design units.
    Dim cellDescent As Integer = _
    descentFontFamily.GetCellDescent(FontStyle.Regular)

    ' Draw the result as a string to the screen.
    e.Graphics.DrawString("descentFontFamily.GetCellDescent() returns " _
    & cellDescent.ToString() & ".", New Font(descentFontFamily, 16), _
    Brushes.Black, New PointF(0, 0))
End Sub

See also

• How To: Obtain Font Metrics