Re: Drawing Text on its side in BC++?

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From: Alastair McColl
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:44

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> Steven Greco writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <C17xG3.DMw@cs.uiuc.edu>
> Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14:2
>
> Org.  : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
> I need to draw text on its side and was wondering if it is possible to
> do this with Borland C++ and owl.  Right now I am using DrawText to draw
> my text, but it just produces normal text, not text on its side.  Is this
> possible?  Is there any way to rotate a bitmap possibly?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> ^ Steven Greco ^           "I've got a real indication of a laugh coming
> on..."
> greco@cs.uiuc.edu                  -Thought Gang
> s-greco@uiuc.edu


There are two arguments to DrawText() that control the angle of the type
characters. One is referred to as "escapement" and I can't remember the other
one off hand, but the difference is subtle... I don't want to look it up
right now, but they're there.

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