I am trying to show a string in label with diffrent color how to perform this..?

Question

IDE = Visual Studio 2010  
Language = c# .net   
Technology = windows forms application

Hi, i am having 3 labels

Label1 details:

label1.text = "Team1";  
label1.forecolor = Color.yellow;

Label2 details:

label2.text = "Team1";  
label2.forecolor = Color.green;

Label3 details:

label3.text = "Team1";  
label3.forecolor = Color.grey;

Now, What i am trying is this :

label4.text = "Match between " + label1.text+ " and " +label2.text+ " at " +label3.text         ;

But the output of this i am getting all the labels in same color which is set to label4. and i want it to be displayed in different color.

I have tried this solution to put the different labels in form but it is getting overlapped.

so is there any way to concatenate labels..?

Any suggestions ?

dotNET dotNET · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-12T07:23:34

If you are inclined, you can create a UserControl and override its OnPaint function to draw these 3 chunks of text in different colors using GDI+. All it would take is a simple DrawString call.

e.Graphics.DrawString("LabelText", this.Font, Brushes.Red, new Point(100, 100));

You can then expose 3 public properties to control the 3 chunks of text and optionally 3 color properties to control chunk's color. Note that you need to create SolidBrush from those colors in OnPaint because that's what DrawString expects, like this:

using(SolidColorBrush br = new SolidColorBrush(mColor1)
    e.Graphics.DrawString("LabelText", this.Font, br, new Point(100, 100));

Full code:

public partial class MultiColorLabel : Label
{
    public MultiColorLabel()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    public string Text1 { get; set; }
    public string Text2 { get; set; }
    public string Text3 { get; set; }

    public Color Color1 { get; set; }
    public Color Color2 { get; set; }
    public Color Color3 { get; set; }

    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnPaint(e);

        var g = e.Graphics;

        e.Graphics.DrawString("Match between ", this.Font, Brushes.Black, 0, 0);
        var sz = g.MeasureString("Match between ", this.Font).Width;

        using (SolidBrush sb = new SolidBrush(Color1))
            e.Graphics.DrawString(Text1, this.Font, sb, sz, 0);

        sz += g.MeasureString(Text1, this.Font).Width;

        e.Graphics.DrawString(" and ", this.Font, Brushes.Black, sz, 0);
        sz += g.MeasureString(" and ", this.Font).Width;

        using (SolidBrush sb = new SolidBrush(Color2))
            e.Graphics.DrawString(Text2, this.Font, sb, sz, 0);

        sz += g.MeasureString(Text2, this.Font).Width;

        e.Graphics.DrawString(" at ", this.Font, Brushes.Black, sz, 0);
        sz += g.MeasureString(" at ", this.Font).Width;

        using (SolidBrush sb = new SolidBrush(Color3))
            e.Graphics.DrawString(Text3, this.Font, sb, sz, 0);
    }
}

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I am trying to show a string in label with diffrent color how to perform this..?

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