I know of something I could try to do, but it may be more complex than you need/want. With some API functions you can actually create fonts that are rotated to various angles, and then pop the font itself into a DC. If you did that to, say, a picturebox, any text printed from that point is going to be rotated in that manner. I can try to make up a fast control if you want this kind of thing (I might be able to use it later so I think I'll make it up anyway ).
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Out of curiosity, how are you attempting to do the rotation? I've made up a control to do it, but I've never tried to persist an object inside a UC before. I'm getting varying results, but not a 100% working control. It does rotate text though. I'm trying to work out the way to keep the text centered relative to the extent of the control itself.
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I put that in there except for the direction of rotation, but that's easy to add in. I never thought about it, but I'm so accustomed to using trig everywhere that I never think of doing anything but counterclockwise . I'm having a problem keeping the font info there though. I can persist a font object in other controls, but I think I may be losing a font object (as a result of DeleteObject and giving it the wrong one), and it's messing it up.
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Well here it is. After many changes, and scrapping things that didn't work, and then kicking myself a lot after realizing I was trying to do the simplest of things complex ways (like attempting to persist the rotated font, which was a no no, so I switched to just repainting it on demand), I finished it. Tell me what you think, or if there are any problems.
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It's not seeming to rotate for me. It just moves it around in the label. How do you use it? I am setting the angle to different degrees, but it doesn't do anything.
Nevermind! I got it to work. I changed the font from MS Serif to Arial and it worked fine! Cool control. I'll be able to use this somewhere.
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I figured out what was wrong. If you have the font size the default, it doesn't rotate, but once you change the font size it works. MS Serif and 8 pt don't go together well. They play dirty.
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Heh heh. I forgot to mention that. Only TrueType fonts can rotate, and the default font it has is part of the OEM charset (I think). TT is the ANSI charset. There's only a couple of those anyway. Like MS Serif, MS Sans Serif, Fixedsys etc. But any other font works fine. If you pick one of those, it will attempt to make a substitution if there is some angle specified. It will display any of them at 0° though.
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If that is true, why did it work when I left it at MS Serif, but I changed the font size up one? Well it doesn't really matter, it's still a cool control.
PS where are you in the world? It's like almost 2 AM here (California, USA)
Hmm... well maybe there's just something about that font. Anyhow, it's not one I like . All my VB things get Tahoma, or Courier New if I need a monospace one.
I'm 3 hours behind you, on the east coast in Virginia.
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I'm a night person, and I don't sleep very much. I'm generally up until 4-5 am during the summer or when I don't have obligations that require me to be elsewhere at early times in the morning. During classes though I have to force myself to assume a "normal" schedule . But I do better during the summer when I can return to what I call a normal schedule. The time difference is 3 hours later. when it's 12 pm your time, it's 3 pm my time.
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Originally posted by MidgetsBro If that is true, why did it work when I left it at MS Serif, but I changed the font size up one? Well it doesn't really matter, it's still a cool control.
How did you change the font size?
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Well here it is. After many changes, and scrapping things that didn't work, and then kicking myself a lot after realizing I was trying to do the simplest of things complex ways (like attempting to persist the rotated font, which was a no no, so I switched to just repainting it on demand), I finished it. Tell me what you think, or if there are any problems.
But reply on the thread, and poof, I can appear (thanks to getting an email about a response, otherwise I would have never thought about the forum again). I got really busy with work and other stuff, and didn't mess around with VB much for a long time, and one of the consequences was that I didn't hang around in the forums much either, and eventually I must have forgotten about it. For a while I was messing with VC++ 6 since I had just bought it around that time, so that also contributed to a decline in the VB things. The last thing I remember doing with VB was writing a program that I needed in the microbiology lab where I worked, but that was more than 2 years ago, and now I can't even remember what exactly it was for.
I'm glad to see that people like what I had made though, even though it has been so long. I'm surprised that I could still remember my password and login, and that my account did still exist. Most of the people I remember posting quite a bit are probably moderators by now too.
I may start hanging around again though and mess with VB/C++ some more to get familiar with it again, since this has piqued my interest again, and it would probably be useful in the future. I need to update that signature too... that thing is really outdated in the post preview I just looked at.
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