One for the experts

[James Randle of Epidermis]

I posted this in an earlier thread, but have had no response, so i thought
i'd give it a more ego enhancing title!

I am trying to create a textbox that can display text in landscape (font
rotated 90 degrees anti clockwise, and text read from bottom to top, not left
to right... ie

portrait

+---------+
|nnnn ::: |
|::::: nn |
+---------+

landscape

+---------+
|.. c |
|.. c |
|.. |
| .. |
|c .. |
|c .. |
|c .. |
|c .. |
+---------+


I tried overriding the onpaint event in an inherited control class, but the
drawn text remains in portrait.

Am i barking up the wrong tree? As you can probably tell, i don't know which
direction i need to go..so all
help will be greatfully received.
Cheers,
James.

[Chris]

Re: One for the experts

James Randle of Epidermis wrote:[color=blue]
> I posted this in an earlier thread, but have had no response, so i thought
> i'd give it a more ego enhancing title!
>
> I am trying to create a textbox that can display text in landscape (font
> rotated 90 degrees anti clockwise, and text read from bottom to top, not left
> to right... ie
>
> portrait
>
> +---------+
> |nnnn ::: |
> |::::: nn |
> +---------+
>
> landscape
>
> +---------+
> |.. c |
> |.. c |
> |.. |
> | .. |
> |c .. |
> |c .. |
> |c .. |
> |c .. |
> +---------+
>
>
> I tried overriding the onpaint event in an inherited control class, but the
> drawn text remains in portrait.
>
> Am i barking up the wrong tree? As you can probably tell, i don't know which
> direction i need to go..so all
> help will be greatfully received.
> Cheers,
> James.
>[/color]

Not sure if it would work or not, but couldn't override the keypress
event and every time a keystroke is there, add an VbCr to make it appear
in landscape. You'd have to do something about them hitting backspace,
probably remove to chars if they do.

Just a thought.
Chris

[Chris Dunaway]

Re: One for the experts

Check this article out. It may help you.

http://www.bobpowell.net/angletext.htm