Re: Vertical text in buttons, etc.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 11:47, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>  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
> ?

Vertical notebooks have horizontal text. (Which is right - 
nobody should have to turn their head sideways to read a widget
layout.)

Regards,
                                              Owen

> --- 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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