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- From: Alastair_McColl@mindlink.bc.ca (Alastair McColl)
- Subject: Re: Drawing Text on its side in BC++?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:44:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <19953@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Steven Greco writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <C17xG3.DMw@cs.uiuc.edu>
- > Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14:2
- >
- > Org. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- >
- > I need to draw text on its side and was wondering if it is possible to
- > do this with Borland C++ and owl. Right now I am using DrawText to draw
- > my text, but it just produces normal text, not text on its side. Is this
- > possible? Is there any way to rotate a bitmap possibly?
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- > --
- > ^ Steven Greco ^ "I've got a real indication of a laugh coming
- > on..."
- > greco@cs.uiuc.edu -Thought Gang
- > s-greco@uiuc.edu
-
-
- There are two arguments to DrawText() that control the angle of the type
- characters. One is referred to as "escapement" and I can't remember the other
- one off hand, but the difference is subtle... I don't want to look it up
- right now, but they're there.
-
- --
- Alastair McColl, Bird's Eye PMSB
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