Re: draw_string vertically?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

pavel@klebanov.ne.mediaone.net writes:
> Thanks for your response. Of course, I imagined something like that. But
> how does one rotate a pixmap? Also, what's the easiest way to gain access
> to the raw data in a pixmap?
> 
> On a related subject, is there a way to tell who long (and wide) the
> string will be once drawn? (For the purposes of centering, etc...)
> 

You might look at gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-canvas-text.c in the
gnome-libs 1.2 source code, could be useful here.

Havoc