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upside down text?

Post by cwkalish » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:14 am

Hello,
I am developing for tablets and have an app for 2 players facing each over over the tablet. I'd like to have text appear "upside down" (at least from 1 player's view). Is there a way to do this?
Thanks.
-Chuck

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Re: upside down text?

Post by Dixie » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:24 am

Take a snapshot of the field...
hide the field
Rotate the image of the snapshot 180°
display the snapshot at the location of the field..

be well

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Re: upside down text?

Post by Mark » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:33 am

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Re: upside down text?

Post by cwkalish » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:00 pm

Thanks. The unicode trick seems cooler, but the snapshot easier. I'll probably go for easy. But thanks for both tips.

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Re: upside down text?

Post by cwkalish » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:23 pm

oops. One further question: How can I refer to the image that gets imported? It doesn't seem to be selected when it imports, it isn't in "it"...

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Re: upside down text?

Post by Mark » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:42 pm

Hi,

It is strange that it isn't in "it", but you can probably still refer to it as "the last image".

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