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Custom Dictionaries
02 October 09 09:33 PM | text | 7 Comments   

Most current editors provide built in spell checking which validates user input. Spell checkers can be found in anything from word processors, to email clients, and even web browsers. Depending on the scenario, these spell checking utilities vary in complexity. Read More...

Filed under: languages, WPF 4.0

Bindable Run
01 September 09 11:01 PM | text | 2 Comments   

Since the initial release of WPF, Run.Text has been a normal CLR property. This has meant that Run.Text lacks all the benefits of the WPF dependency property system, most notably the ability to be bound. In some cases, one could substitute Runs for TextBlock Read More...

Filed under: WPF 4.0

Caret Brush
01 September 09 12:55 AM | text | 0 Comments   

WPF provides extensive customizability to app authors, allowing them to change the default look and feel of most controls. One exception to this has been the color of the caret in WPF TextBoxes and RichTextBoxes. Since this functionality was not originally Read More...

Filed under: decorative text, WPF 4.0

Selection Brush
28 August 09 06:29 PM | text | 2 Comments   

The default visual appearance of most objects in WPF can be easily tweaked, if not swapped out for a completely different visual tree. This provides developers far greater power over the visual look of an application than ever before. Facilitating the Read More...

Filed under: decorative text, WPF 4.0

Layout Rounding
27 August 09 08:41 AM | text | 6 Comments   

WPF’s layout engine frequently gives elements s ub-pixel positions. Antialiasing algorithms cause these sub-pixel positioned elements to be rendered over multiple physical pixels after filtering. This can result in blurry lines and other non desirable Read More...

Filed under: pixel snapping, WPF 4.0

WPF 4.0 Text Stack Improvements
24 August 09 07:23 PM | text | 30 Comments   

Please note that the screenshots in this post are not displaying correctly. To view them in their full fidelity, right click on them and save them as a .PNGs. Then use your image viewing program of choice. Text Formatting API The attached property TextOptions.TextFormattingMode Read More...

Back to WPF Text Blog
22 August 09 01:29 AM | text | 0 Comments   

Since DirectWrite will now be using a different blog, the name of this blog will return to WPF Text Blog. - Chipalo Read More...

DirectWrite blog posts moving to the DirectX blog
17 July 09 02:26 AM | text | 0 Comments   

In order to consolidate information from various blogs about the DirectX family of APIs, we have created a central DirectX blog site - http://blogs.msdn.com/DirectX/ All future posts on DirectWrite will be posted on the DirectX blog along with information Read More...

Filed under: DirectWrite

New WPF 4.0 Features
24 June 09 06:35 PM | text | 12 Comments   

WPF 4.0 Beta1 was released last month. While many exciting features were included in Beat1, there was no work targeting text, flow, or layout. This will all be reversed with WPF Beat2. Below is a brief overview for each of the features included in Beta2 Read More...

Filed under: text rendering, pixel snapping, WPF 4.0

Introducing the DirectWrite Font System
15 April 09 09:00 PM | text | 3 Comments   

Hi, my name is Niklas Borson and I’m a developer on the DirectWrite team at Microsoft. DirectWrite has multiple layers of functionality, including text layout, script processing, glyph rendering, and the font system. In this post, I’d like to talk about Read More...

DirectWrite Questions and Answers
13 April 09 10:57 PM | text | 4 Comments   

Hi, my name is Mikhail Leonov, and I’m a Senior Software Development Engineer on the DirectWrite team at Microsoft. I would like to address common user feedback on DirectWrite in a relatively informal ‘simple question – simple answer’ format. Feedback Read More...

Filed under: text rendering, ClearType, vista, DirectWrite

DirectWrite beta documentation
16 January 09 01:42 AM | text | 0 Comments   

There is now DirectWrite content in MSDN as part of the Win7 beta documentation.    The content includes overview docs, API reference and sample code.  If you have downloaded the Windows 7 beta, try out the DirectWrite APIs and send Read More...

DirectWrite
11 December 08 04:33 PM | text | 4 Comments   

Hello – my name is Sriram Subramanian and I am a Senior Program Manager on Windows 7 for text.  As you can see from the updated title – this blog will start discussing the new DirectWrite text APIs in Windows 7 in addition to the WPF text and layout Read More...

Filed under: DirectWrite

WPF Text Clarity Doc
18 August 08 07:25 PM | text | 7 Comments   

I have posted a doc about: problems inherent to rendering small text, how WPF tackles these problems, and workarounds that can be employed to mitigate some rendering problems until these issues are resolved. You can find it on WindowsClient.net here , Read More...

New Blog Admin
18 July 08 09:25 PM | text | 3 Comments   

Hi, my name is Chipalo, and I am a program manager on WPF. Unfortunately, Chris is no longer with Microsoft. I wanted to introduce myself because I have taken over his responsibilities and will be maintaining this blog in the future. Read More...