Re: Vertical text in buttons, etc.

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 From the image on the URL, those are all "Tabbed Panes", I think that if can
select a vertical layout for the gtknotebook, it will automatically do that. No
?

Harring.

--- Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 01:42, Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > I need a widget with vertical tabs/buttons with text, as in JEdit. You
> > can get an idea from the left part of the image here: 
> > 
> > http://sourcebase.sourceforge.net/vertical-text.png
> > 
> > How do I do this in GTK+ ?
> 
> Basically, you can't currently.
> 
> A possible workaround:
> 
>  - Draw the text to a pixmap (using gdk_draw_pango_layout())
>  - Retrieve that back into a GdkPixbuf (gdk_pixbuf_from_drawable())
>  - Put the GdkPixbuf into the button (Add a GtkImage to an 
>    empty GtkButton)
> 
> Regards,
>                                        Owen
> 
> 
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