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I have this really awesome idea, but cannot find out if there are any classes in the .NET Framework (any version, preferrably 3.5 or 4.0) that allow you to pass in a character, and get back the width in pixels of that character, no matter which font, or font size or font-decoration is being used. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Does a class/something even exist for something like this?
Check out the Graphics.MeasureString method.
Code sample adapted from the link:
The sample above assumes you’re in the function body of a Paint event handler and the Graphics object is already created for you and passed in as an event parameter. If you don’t want or can’t do it in a Paint handler you can create a graphics object at your convenience with Control.CreateGraphics.