Force ClearType Text Rendering for TextBox Control

[occcy]

Hi! Is there any way to force ClearType text rendering (regardless of the current windows settings) for a System.Windows.Forms.TextBox control? Custom drawing of a textbox (OnPaint, Message Handling etc.) doesn't work. Thanks in advance!

[eonsimi]

the post it's rather old but i'll write an answer anyway for others to see it .. so here it is: by overriding the OnPaint method should work just fine, subclass the textbox class and in the constructor add the UserPaint style like this:

this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);

after that, override the OnPaint method and add the following line:

e.Graphics.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.ClearTypeGridFit;

now you may use e.Graphics.DrawString(this.Text, ...) to paint the text.

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