Border in DrawRectangle

Question

Well, I'm coding the OnPaint event for my own control and it is very nescessary for me to make it pixel-accurate.

I've got a little problem with borders of rectangles.

See picture:

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These two rectangles were drawn with the same location and size parameters, but using different size of the pen. See what happend? When border became larger it has eaten the free space before the rectangle (on the left).

I wonder if there is some kind of property which makes border be drawn inside of the rectangle, so that the distance to rectangle will always be the same. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do this by specifying PenAlignment

Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Black, 2); pen.Alignment = PenAlignment.Inset; //<-- this g.DrawRectangle(pen, rect);