EMERGENCY, fonts at angles!!!

[Sam Finch]

Sorry to get you guys to do my work for me, but this is a bit of a chrisis.

Basicly I'm going away for christmas in a couple of hours and the guys I'm working for have just emailed me asking me to change some code. I'm sending back some pointers on how to do It as I really don't have time, but I need to explain how to change the angle of the font using the API.

I can't test this lot or anything but I'm pretty sure the API's you need are these

Private Type LOGFONT
        lfHeight As Long
        lfWidth As Long
        lfEscapement As Long
        lfOrientation As Long
        lfWeight As Long
        lfItalic As Byte
        lfUnderline As Byte
        lfStrikeOut As Byte
        lfCharSet As Byte
        lfOutPrecision As Byte
        lfClipPrecision As Byte
        lfQuality As Byte
        lfPitchAndFamily As Byte
        lfFaceName(1 To LF_FACESIZE) As Byte
End Type


Private Declare Function GetObject Lib "gdi32" Alias "GetObjectA" (ByVal hObject As Long, ByVal nCount As Long, lpObject As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function SelectObject Lib "gdi32" Alias "SelectObject" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateFontIndirect Lib "gdi32" Alias "CreateFontIndirectA" (lpLogFont As LOGFONT) As Long
Private Declare Function DeleteObject Lib "gdi32" Alias "DeleteObject" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long

use select object to get the handle of the font in a DC, then getobject to fill a LOGFONT with the font data, then change the Escapement and orientation to the angle you want the font at ( in 1/10ths of degrees measured anti-clockwise from the +ve x axis

then use createfont indirect and deleteobject selectobject to put the New font in the DC.



I'm sorry to have to ask so much, but this is really important and very bad Timing, I'm not sure how much API experience they have, I think it's very little.

If anyone could help I'd be so greatful.

Thanks.

[parksie]

Back shortly...

[parksie]

Okay - these should help:

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/codelib...o/sidelogo.htm
http://www.katisha.demon.co.uk/vb/ti...ngle_text.html

Forgot I had that last one (strange considering I wrote it!)