[RESOLVED] Rotating text

[957]

The reason why I want to do this is a little much to get into, but how can I rotate text by 90 degrees?

[dglienna]

Use Silverlight, or WPF or DirectDraw

[HanneSThEGreaT]

No need for any of those....

All you need is the DrawString method of the Drawing class.

DO the following :

Add 2 buttons to a new form, then type this :

Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub btnTopToBottom_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnTopToBottom.Click
        Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics

        g.TranslateTransform(50, 50)
        g.RotateTransform(-90)
        g.DrawString("Testing 1", Me.Font, New SolidBrush(Color.Black), 0, 0)


    End Sub

    Private Sub btnBottomToTop_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnBottomToTop.Click
        Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics

        g.TranslateTransform(70, 50)
        g.RotateTransform(90)
        g.DrawString("Testing 2", Me.Font, New SolidBrush(Color.Azure), 0, 0)
    End Sub
End Class

Really not difficult at all with the built in drawing capabilities

[957]

thanks! that worked!

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Cool, I'm happy that it worked.

Good work