Re: Vertical text in buttons, etc.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

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