Letter spacing in winforms Textbox c#.

Question

Hi ,

i am using c# winforms 2022 community . WPF or any other technology is not an option . I am trying to reduce the character spacing inside the textbox such that if the characters length exceeds the width of the textbox , it should automatically reduce the character spacing in the text written .
for example in the below pic , 34 characters can be seen fitting easily in a textbox

but when i exceed the characters inside it , they reduces their character spacing between them .

i know this looks ugly but this is due to the screenshot taken by magnifier app . I am open to using custom or other controls which can behave like textbox and make my work .

Answer 1

As you need control of the character kerning based on width, you will need write a custom control. See:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/controls-design/overview

to draw the text you will need gdi drawing

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/gdi/drawing-text