FontDescriptor Class

FontDescriptor class holds the FontStyleSetInfo for a class and an instance of the Font described by that info (if it's already been created). The FontDescriptor is what gets cached for later use.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Diagrams.FontDescriptor

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Diagrams
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.Diagrams.10.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.Diagrams.10.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaração
Public Class FontDescriptor
public class FontDescriptor
public ref class FontDescriptor
type FontDescriptor =  class end
public class FontDescriptor

The FontDescriptor type exposes the following members.

Constructors

  Name Description
Public method FontDescriptor Constructor that creates a descriptor based on a specified FontStyleSetInfo.

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Properties

  Name Description
Public property Font Gets a cloned instance of the Font defined by this descriptor. If the font has not been previously created, it creates it first.
Public property FontHeight Gets the line spacing of this font (i.e., the height of a line of text) in world units. Line spacing is the ascent + the descent + some recommended extra. The ascent is the height of the character above the baseline, and the descent is the height of the character below the baseline. The extra is below the descent.
Public property FontSize Gets the em height of the Font object measured in the units of the Font object. This is the value used to create the font. Use FontHeight instead if you want to get the height of a line of text using this font (i.e., the line spacing).
Public property FontStyleSetInfo Gets the font information for this descriptor.

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Methods

  Name Description
Public method Equals Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Diagrams Namespace