For a complete example on how to use annotation draw and edit designers, refer to AnnDesigner This example initializes a new designer to draw text pointer objects.

Visual Basic

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Public Function AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner_AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner(ByVal viewer As BitmapSourceViewer, ByVal container As AnnContainer) As AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner   ' start a new text pointer draw designer   Dim textPointerDrawDesigner As AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner = New AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner(container)   Dim textPointer As AnnTextPointerObject = New AnnTextPointerObject()   textPointer.Stroke = Nothing   textPointer.Fill = Nothing   textPointer.FontFamily = New FontFamily("Arial")   textPointer.FontSize = 10.0   textPointer.TextEdgeMargin = 0.0     textPointer.TextHorizontalAlignment = AnnTextAlignment.Center     textPointer.TextVerticalAlignment = AnnTextAlignment.Center     textPointer.PointerPosition = New System.Windows.Point(800, 800)   textPointer.IsFixedPointer = True   ' set up the default text to be used   textPointerDrawDesigner.DefaultText = "Leadtools"   ' initialize the rest of the designer   textPointerDrawDesigner.ObjectTemplate = textPointer   textPointerDrawDesigner.IsClipCursor = True   Return textPointerDrawDesigner End Function

C#

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public AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner_AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner(BitmapSourceViewer viewer, AnnContainer container)  {     // start a new text pointer draw designer     AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner textPointerDrawDesigner = new AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner(container);     AnnTextPointerObject textPointer = new AnnTextPointerObject();     textPointer.Stroke = null;     textPointer.Fill = null;     textPointer.FontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial");     textPointer.FontSize = 10.0;     textPointer.TextEdgeMargin = 0.0;     textPointer.TextHorizontalAlignment = AnnTextAlignment.Center;     textPointer.TextVerticalAlignment = AnnTextAlignment.Center;     textPointer.PointerPosition = new Point(800, 800);     textPointer.IsFixedPointer = true;       // set up the default text to be used     textPointerDrawDesigner.DefaultText = "Leadtools";       // initialize the rest of the designer     textPointerDrawDesigner.ObjectTemplate = textPointer;     textPointerDrawDesigner.IsClipCursor = true;       return textPointerDrawDesigner;  }

System.Object
   System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherObject
      System.Windows.DependencyObject
         System.Windows.Media.Visual
            System.Windows.UIElement
               System.Windows.FrameworkElement
                  System.Windows.Documents.Adorner
                     Leadtools.Windows.Annotations.AnnDesigner
                        Leadtools.Windows.Annotations.AnnDrawDesigner
                           Leadtools.Windows.Annotations.AnnTextPointerDrawDesigner

Target Platforms: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003 family

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