Thanks for the answer, Dave. That makes perfect sense. Why is it that the graphics context is rotated but the advances supplied to Font::DrawGlyphs in the GlyphBuffer aren't?
Cary On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM, David Hyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 10, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Cary Clark wrote: > > > TL;DR: Why is the graphics context rotated when drawing vertical text? > > I assume you're referring to the rotation done by InlineTextBox. The basic > reason for the rotation was that it was a minimal change to the code and > allowed a bunch of other drawing functions to remain unchanged. You could > certainly eliminate the rotation, but you'd then have to patch all of the > InlineTextBox drawing functions (underlines, selection, spell check > markers, etc.) to be able to operate horizontally or vertically. > > dave > ([email protected]) > >
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