SetTextCharacterExtra Winapi is not working with C#

[Abhishek R Prajapati]

I want to increase/decrease space between characters while drawing using System.Drawing in C#. I am using one winapi SetTextCharacterExtra to do so but it is not working at all. Below is my code block:


[DllImport("gdi32.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern int SetTextCharacterExtra(

IntPtr hdc, // DC handle
int nCharExtra // extra-space value
);

public void Draw(Graphics g)
{
IntPtr hdc = g.GetHdc();
SetTextCharacterExtra(hdc, 24);
g.ReleaseHdc(hdc);

e.Graphics.DrawString("str",this.Font,Brushes.Black,0,0);
}


I have tried printing each character manually but it is not working as perfect as it should be. Any idea on this please?


A.R.Prajapati

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