There are many many 'display' controls (either
ActiveX
or not) available. For instance, you may find some of them in
Code Project
articles (see the
"Desktop Development » Static & Panel Controls"[
^]).
Please not you might 'draw characters on different coordinates' just using
GDI
primitives (like, for instance the
DrawText[
^] function) in the
OnPaint
event handler.