Hi, Thus spoketh Cam Farnell <ms...@bitflipper.ca> unto us on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:32:11 -0400:
> Hmm. Need to draw text on an angle on a canvas but no mention of angled > text in the documentation. > > Does anyone know if there is actually a way to do this or is it time to > implement a vector font and do it the hard way? In Tk-8.6 the canvas text element has a new -angle option, so using Tk-8.6 is definitely the best way to do this. If installing Tk-8.6 is not an option for you, you may try Blt which seems to be able to rotate text according to: http://wiki.tcl.tk/3365 or to use tkImg to create a window-image object and then rotate this image as demonstrated in http://wiki.tcl.tk/4022 . The tcl wiki shows a few more examples (see http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/gsearch?S=rotate+text) but they are all more or less a pain in the neck, if possible I recommend using Tk-8.6, it's probably much easier to install it and recompile Python to use it than to set up rotated text with older tk versions. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil. -- Sirah the Yang, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
