Re: Vertical strings in a PixMap

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

>You are doomed, GTK just uses the underlying X string-drawing
>mechanism, and X does not support this.
>
>The only thing you can do is use some sort of client-side font
>rendering, then push a big bitmap of your string onto the X
>server. People sometimes use FreeType for that.
>
>Havoc

If you do, please implement the AtkText interface on your new custom 
widget :-)

-Bill

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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland