VB.NET get variable from Function

Hi All, I found some code for painting rotated text on my form. Code seems to work great and I am using this text basically as labels. My question is, how can I get the 'TEXT' in the code and assign it to a variable that I can use elsewhere?

From this line, I need "ATE 500" assigned to a variable. I will end up using this method several times to create multiple text strings. Here I have only two so far.

Code:

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DrawRotateText(e.Graphics, -50, "ATE 500", x1, y1, rotatedFont, Brushes.Firebrick)

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Code:

Code:

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Public Class Form1

    Dim rotatedFont As New Font("Segoe UI", 14) 


    Private Sub RotateText_Paint(sender As Object, e As PaintEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Paint

        e.Graphics.TextRenderingHint = Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.AntiAliasGridFit

        ' Label 1
        Dim lb1 As Integer = 40, x1 As Integer = -25, y1 As Integer = 170
        DrawRotateText(e.Graphics, -50, "ATE 500", x1, y1, rotatedFont, Brushes.Firebrick)
        x1 += lb1

        ' Label 2
        Dim lb2 As Integer = 40, x2 As Integer = 60, y2 As Integer = 170
        DrawRotateText(e.Graphics, -50, "ATE 800", x2, y2, rotatedFont, Brushes.Firebrick)
        x2 += lb2
    End Sub

    Function DrawRotateText(ByVal gr As Graphics, ByVal angle As Decimal, ByVal txt As String, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal rotatedFont As Font, ByVal thebrush As Brush)

        Dim state As GraphicsState = gr.Save

        gr.ResetTransform()
        gr.RotateTransform(angle)
        gr.TranslateTransform(x, y, MatrixOrder.Append)
        gr.DrawString(txt, rotatedFont, thebrush, 70, -10)
        gr.Restore(state)

    End Function

End Class

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Well... where does it come from to begin with? User Input? File? Or is it just hard-coded and doesn't change?

Code:

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Const ATE_500 as String = "ATE 500"
Const ATE_800 as String = "ATE 800"

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Then you can use ATE-500 or ATE_800 in your code as needed...

-tg

Thanks techgnome. I think this will get me what I need. Somehow I was thinking something else with how to get this, but this will work perfect.