Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:28:43PM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> Does anybody have some ideas about a clean way to format some text as
> a vertical marquee without resorting to Pango layout/font
> manipulation? I.e., if "foobar" is the text, then it should be
> rendered with the characters stacked one atop the other:
>
> f
> o
> o
> b
> a
> r

What is wrong with "f\no\no\nb\na\nr"?  Either as a label or
drawn as a Pango layout (a matter of three lines of code).

Yeti


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