Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

["Matt Hoosier" <mwhoosier gmail com>]

This is occurring inside of a widget which auto-responds to locale
changes. I'd hoped to avoid iterating across (and reformatting) the
input whenever a set_text() call occurs.

Thanks

On 7/17/06, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> 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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