ComboBox Text Align Vertically Center

Question

I created the custom combobox on .net framework 1.1, i can custom draw dropdown items, but i can\'t set or draw the combobox text on Middle Left , combobox text always render t

Answer 1

ok, below code doesn't answer the actual question about the Text portion; Hans got it right, as usual.

I keep the answer because I think it does a few things better than OP code..

    if (!DesignMode)
    {
        if (e.Index > -1)
        {
           using (StringFormat fmt = new StringFormat() 
             { Alignment = StringAlignment.Center, LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center })
           {

            if ((e.State & DrawItemState.Selected) == DrawItemState.Selected)
            {
                e.Graphics.FillRectangle(SystemBrushes.MenuHighlight, e.Bounds);
                e.Graphics.DrawString(comboBox1.Items[e.Index].ToString(), 
                                        e.Font,SystemBrushes.HighlightText, e.Bounds, fmt);
            }
            else
            {
                e.Graphics.FillRectangle(SystemBrushes.Window, e.Bounds);
                e.Graphics.DrawString(comboBox1.Items[e.Index].ToString(), 
                                        e.Font, SystemBrushes.MenuText,e.Bounds, fmt);
            }
         }
      }
    }

Instead of calculating a centered position I use the DrawString overload that takes a target rectangle and add a StringFormat to center in both directions. StringFormat was available since .Net 1.1 and indeed is IDisposable, so we should dipose of each we create, best in a using clause..

Note that for drawing controls the use of TextRenderer is encouraged but only came with .Net 2.0.

Also note that I substituted the Brushes for SystemBrushes..

Also: My ComboBox doesn't place the text in its Text portion top-left but middle-left. Maybe the old .Net1.1 control is the culprit?