Re: draw_string vertically?

[<pavel klebanov ne mediaone net>]

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...)

Pavel


On 29 Dec 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> <pavel klebanov ne mediaone net> writes:
> > Is there an easy way to draw a string in the vertical direction in a
> > drawable?
>
> No, this is a sucky limitation inherited from X. You have to do it
> some hard way (render to a pixmap, rotate the pixmap as an image; or
> draw a stack of letters; or something along those lines).
>
> Havoc