Drawing Text on its side in BC++?

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4 total messages Started by Steven Greco Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14

#2237

Author: Steven Greco
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14

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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

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

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Author: John Grant
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:18

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In article <C17xG3.DMw@cs.uiuc.edu> greco@cs.uiuc.edu (Steven Greco) writes:
>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?
	You must create a new HFONT with the required angle.  The
	angle is the .lfEscapment member of a LOGFONT.
	Not all fonts can be rotated (i.e. bitmapped fonts).  However,
	all TrueType fonts can be rotated.  I just use "Arial" as
	my default font for graphics.
-- 
John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

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

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Author: Dave Emmerson
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:36

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Borland C++ 3.1 includes source for an example programme, truetype,
which demonstrates how to rotate text. As I recall, its C++. (But not
at all difficult to modify for ANSI, for anyone else who might be 
interested.)
	Dave.

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

#2395

Author: Bill Whedon
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:48

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In article <DAVE.93Jan26133650@wundt.harlqn.co.uk> dave@harlqn.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>Borland C++ 3.1 includes source for an example programme, truetype,
>which demonstrates how to rotate text. As I recall, its C++. (But not
>at all difficult to modify for ANSI, for anyone else who might be 
>interested.)
>	Dave.
You really need look no further than the description of the LOGFONT struct
to find out how to rotate text.  You set the lfEscapement and lfOrientation
elements (in tenths of a degree) to the appropriate angles, and create the
font, then TextOut at your desired coordinates... voila!  It's rotated!
Try it and see.  It's dead simple.
Cheers,
Bill Whedon  whedon@netcom.com


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