On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, John Hunter wrote: > I would like to write text vertically (rotated 90 degrees) in a > GtkDrawingArea. My preliminary look at the docs (I checked the pygtk > tutorial this time!) suggests that this is no mean feat.
The standard way of doing this in X is to render text to a pixmap, rotate the pixmap via bit shifting operations, and then blit the rotated pixmap to the screen. However, if you really want to handle text well, you should probably look at something like PyFT (Python Freetype) to render things with full flexibility and accuracy. -a _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
