Text Box Rotation?

[cmhjon]

Hi all,

I see that graphics can be rotated but I don't see where text boxes can be rotated. If they can't, is there a place on the LC website to make a feature request?

Thank you,
Jon

[SparkOut]

Hermann (user [-hh] here) used to be very active here on these forums, but is sadly no longer contributing, due to circumstances I am not qualified to discuss. I can only say that his efforts were always very polished, informative, educational and brilliant.
A lot of astoundingly good programming has been removed or veiled, but fortunately there is still content he continues to host, and here: https://hyperhh.de/widgets/ you will see one of the widgets is for text rotation (called OrientedText). You won't get a better solution.

[bogs]

A lot of astoundingly good programming has been removed or veiled, but fortunately there is still content he continues to host, and here: https://hyperhh.de/widgets/ you will see one of the widgets is for text rotation (called OrientedText). You won't get a better solution.

You *might* find a better way, but I agree you'd be hard pressed too. I sure miss Hermann, I still stumble across things he did that make my jaw drop.

[richmond62]

Indeed: Hermann's stuff knocks the socks off most people's work.

HOWEVER; over 'here' with lazy Richmond I would ask one simple question:

1. Do you want to change the text in your text box after it has been rotated?

If the answer to that is 'No' then you could 'just' import a snapshot of your text field and rotate that.

Code: Select all

on mouseUp
   import snapshot from fld "ff"
   set the name of the last control to "PIC"
   set the angle of img "PIC" to 45
end mouseUp

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