HOWTO: Multiline text rotated by 90°
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Topic: HOWTO: Multiline text rotated by 90°
Posted By: mgampi
Subject: HOWTO: Multiline text rotated by 90°
Date Posted: 26 November 2009 at 10:24am
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Hi; Does anybody know how to draw multiline text with automatic line breaks rotated by 90°. I would prefer a function similar to CDC::Drawtext() where I only have to specify several alignment flas and the bounding rectangle. I searched the web with no success... Any help is very welcome! ------------- Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 1:59am
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Hi,
Windows API doesn't support it :( You can only manually splt and draw each line. ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 2:21am
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Use GDI+ or simply draw to a bitmap which you rotate afterwards. |
Posted By: mgampi
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 3:56am
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Has nobody ever done this before? Code reuse  !------------- Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
Posted By: jimmy
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 5:08am
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Look here. this class can draw rotated text. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/static/clabel.aspx Jimmy |
Posted By: mgampi
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 5:18am
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I know this, but it doesn't help here. This class only uses single line rotated text, no wordbreak no ellipsis...
------------- Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 6:57am
| Draw to bitmap, then rotate using primitive GetPixel/SetPixel :). |
Posted By: mgampi
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 7:03am
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Thanks znakeeye but I won't do that --> performance issues. Now I write my own DrawText function, that manually splits the text and draws it using rotated font with TextOut(). It's a little bit more of work, but worth to do it this way...
------------- Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 9:54am
| If you need performance, why not use GDI+? It supports rotation of text... |
Posted By: mgampi
Date Posted: 27 November 2009 at 9:55am
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Yes I know this, but not for any kind of orientation and escapement...
------------- Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 28 November 2009 at 9:28am
| I remember Charles Petzold made exactly what you're trying to do, with GDI. Search the net for petzoldi.chm and you'll find it! |
Posted By: mgampi
Date Posted: 30 November 2009 at 4:15am
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Hi; Had no chance to find a downloadable or readable version of this book! ------------- Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
Posted By: jimmy
Date Posted: 01 December 2009 at 2:58pm
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Hello, I've send you a private message Jimmy |