Vertical Text?

wxPython Users
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Hello,

I was wondering if there is an easy way to do vertical text in wxPython?
(Either A Static Text Ctrl which renders the text vertically or rotated
by 90 degrees.)

I'm pondering two methods to do it,
- Split the text into individual characters and put them in a Vertical
Box sizer.
- Rendering to a DC and rotating the DC by 90 degrees.

Any ideas? Anyone implemented code to do this?

Thanks for your help.

Tim Ansell

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Tim Ansell wrote:

I was wondering if there is an easy way to do vertical text in wxPython?
(Either A Static Text Ctrl which renders the text vertically or rotated
by 90 degrees.)

I'm pondering two methods to do it,
- Split the text into individual characters and put them in a Vertical
Box sizer.

That I wouldn't do -- it just seems very heavyweight

- Rendering to a DC and rotating the DC by 90 degrees.

That would work OK, or, if you'd rather have the text vertical, but the letter normal, you could render each letter with a DC, using DC.GetTextExtents to figure out where to place all the letters.

I imagine that the Generic StaticText :

wx.lib.stattext.GenStaticText

would be a good place to start.

-Chris

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Christopher Barker wrote:

Tim Ansell wrote:

- Rendering to a DC and rotating the DC by 90 degrees.

That would work OK,

A note: you can draw rotated text on a DC, rather than rotating the DC itself.

-Chris

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