drawing a string on the screen C#

Question

I would like to simply draw a string (if possible in a specific font and size) on the screen (at a specific location). I am within a C# windows forms application. Unfortunately, I could not found any hint on how to do this in the web.

Please help!

Christian

Answer 1

To draw a string outside of your window, you'll have to CREATE a new window, set it's mask to some color (say magenta) and then draw text onto it - you can use simple label here.

Set your window border style to None, and there you go.

In other words, there is no way of displaying 'free text' without window attached.

For masking color, use 'transparency color' or similar property (I will look up into it later - have no VS at hand)