How to get the text and font in the Indicator DrawMarks

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Posted 18 years ago by shark92651
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I'm sure I am just overlooking something obvious here but I want a very simple SpanIndicator that will draw a box around some text, fill the background color, and then draw the text. I cannot find a way to get a reference to the Font property of the SyntaxEditor.

Here is how I am getting the text (is this the best way?):

protected override void DrawMarks(Graphics g, Rectangle Bounds)
{
string text = this.Document.Text.Substring(this.Offset, this.Length);
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Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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We draw the text for you. You just override the GetHighlightingStyle and return a HighlightingStyle that gives the fore and background colors of the text. Then in DrawMarks, draw the box around the bounds.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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