MFC Printing from Bottom to Top (vertically) how to?

[werpa]

I'm looking to use MFC's DrawText or other API to print text on the left side of a graph vertically from bottom to top (90 degrees turn). I'm finding little help for it on the web. This can be done in .NET 2.0, but haven't found a way in MFC C++. Any help?

[ovidiucucu]

Before drawing the text, select in the device context a font with desired "escapement".
Here is an example:

void CMyCoolView::OnDraw(CDC* pDC)
{
   // ...
   CFont font;
   LONG lfHeight = -::MulDiv(14, ::GetDeviceCaps(pDC->m_hDC, LOGPIXELSY), 72);
   LONG lfEscapement = 900;
   font.CreateFont(lfHeight,
                   0, 
                   lfEscapement,  // Escapement 
                   0,             // Orientation
                   FW_NORMAL, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, ANSI_CHARSET, 
                   OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY,
                   FF_ROMAN|DEFAULT_PITCH, _T("Times New Roman"));

   CFont* pOldFont = pDC->SelectObject(&font);
   pDC->TextOut(50, 150, CString(_T("Baba Safta")));
   pDC->SelectObject(pOldFont);
}

Fore more info about font escapement and orientation take a look at LOGFONT strucure documentation in MSDN.

[werpa]

Great posting. This worked well. Thank you.