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I have an application wherein I need to rotate a text fragment so that it runs vertically instead of the usual horizontal orientation. I could probably turn the text into an image, then use GDI to rotate it, ala TIC's excellent approach at http://www.autohotkey.net/~tic/Gdip.Tut ... .image.ahk, but before I go to all that trouble, does anyone have a simpler approach?

I'm about at my wit's end.

Thanks in advance

Take a look at these links, I haven;t really evaluated them

Custom GUI Controls & GUI related
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic19509.html

this link is listed in the 2nd poat of the above thread
New controls on GUI windows (Buttons, Statics, HMTL, RTF...)
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic83 ... hlight=rtf

I think I see some text running vertically just left of the clock

Or to be really simple, you could use a narrow textbox with word-wrapping.

Or convert the text from this vertical
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Thanks for you timely response, Leef ... I looked at the links but I worry that the techniques used there are more than a bit beyond my limited skill-set. Also, I didn't do a good job of explaining my problem in my initial post ... the narrow text box and vertical stacking of characters that you suggested won't help because I need to actually rotate each character 90 degrees - so that the text fragment looks "normal" if you rotate the page 90 degrees.

In other words, I need this:


Hmmmm ... actually, just searching for the above image led me to a possible solution ... now - if I just knew how to use Silverlight ...

I understood you just wanted the whole block of text rotated, like you just showed.

If you look again at this link you can see "RotStatic" in 4 different orientations.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic83 ... hlight=rtf

Very clever, indeed, %Guest% ...

Sadly I need to do the rotation outside of a GUI (I actually need to rotate the text in something like NotePad and then send it to a printer).

But I surely do admire your ingenuity ... I never would have thought of using the slider/scroller thingie. Kudos.

@Uncle Wiggily,
Your requirements were not properly stated, or else they have changed.

You said nothing about printing, nothing about Notepad.

As you possibly know, GDI+ can be used to rotate text, and to generate images that can be printed.

Leef:

You are correct ... I failed to describe the exact environment within which my script had to operate, and I did not specify the output mode, if any, of the script I am dealing with. My bad.

You are also correct in assuming that I know about the capabilities of GDI+ with regard to my problem; I had hoped that I might be able to find a simpler approach - I now see that is a misplaced hope.

Thanks for your help and attention.

Uncle Wiggily

M.S. Paint

---or---

M.S. Paint & Wordpad combination ?

I am adding this option to Gdip_TextToGraphics

tic, did you get this added to Gdip_TextToGraphics?

arg....I did actually write this, but it had one thing that needed fixing (vCentre with this option and specifying an x offset)....but now I can't find where I saved it!



Heh...yeh in wpf these things are trivial

Dang, that stinks -- I hope you can find it, rotated text would be really helpful!

Thanks for all your work,

Adam