Hi,

Our developers have recently added a TextPadding property to the WPF version; we'll try to port it to Windows Forms for the next release.

Now you could implement that by custom-drawing the text inside the rectangle returned by RectangleF.Inflate(node.Bounds, -padding, -padding). E.g. you could create a custom node type TextNode and call that from its Draw implementation. Or use ShapeNodes with their CustomDraw property set to Additional and handle the DrawNode event.

Another option is to display the text inside a Transparent ShapeNode attached to the main node using the AttachTo(GroupAnchorStyles) overloaded method, anchored to all sides of the main rect with initial offset from them set to the padding value.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan