Re: Displaying vertical text

[Jim Hurley]

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Message: 5
Date: Fri,  5 Nov 2004 21:03:23 +0200
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Subject: Displaying vertical text
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Hello everybody,
I need to display a text verticaly, this text 
cannot be an image as it comes from a variable. 
Is
there any way to rotate a field, label, ?

Thanx
Regards
AurČlien

AurElien,
This may be overkill, but Turtle Graphics is one 
option. If your text variable is "tMessage" then 
in TG you would use something like:

on mouseUP
  put "This is a vertical line" into tMessage
  put the number of chars in tMessage into tNum
  put -100,100 into startHere -- Your choice
  put 12 into charSeparation -- Your choice
  startTurtle
  penUp
  setHeading -90
  setXY startHere
  repeat with i = 1 to tNum
    forward charSeparation
    label char i of tMessage
  end repeat
end mouseUP
Or, for something more interesting, to write the 
message along a semi-circular path:

on mouseUP
  put "This is a semi-circle" into tMessage
  put the number of chars in tMessage into tNum
  put 150 into R
  startTurtle
  setHeading -90
  penUp
  repeat with i = 1 to tNum
    forward pi*R/tNum -- Spaces characters evenly on the semi-circle
    left 180/tNum -- Takes a semi-circular path
    label char i of tMessage
  end repeat
end mouseUP
You can find TG on the RR web site at: 
http://downloads.runrev.com/stacks_apps/

Jim
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