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Text Box Rotation?
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:05 pm
by 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
Re: Text Box Rotation?
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Text Box Rotation?
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:32 pm
by bogs
SparkOut wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:44 pm
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.
Re: Text Box Rotation?
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:31 am
by 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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