Print text in all direction

[Gafny Jacob]

Hi all

I have a need to print a text entered by a user on a Dc and then
draw a rectangle around the text

I know the x & y coordinate that I want to put the text, so what
I'm doing is calling to the DrawText function with the %DT_CALCRECT
flag, so I get the rectangle, then I draw the text & the rectangle.

The problem I have is that the user can change the escapement of the
Text (Print the text verticaly for example). In that case, the text
is printed out of the rectangle and I have no Idea where to draw
the rectangle around the text.

Any Idea how can I solve this problem. At least, how can I force the vertical
text to be printed inside the rectangle

TIA

Sorry, this sould be posted on pbdll forum
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[This message has been edited by Gafny Jacob (edited June 21, 2001).]

[Semen Matusovski]

no idea about "normal" way to mix vertical & horizontal printing, but maybe rotatebitmap in http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=22901 may be useful.
it's possible to draw horizontally on temporary hdc and then to move (with any angle) to target hdc.
i don't think that windows works seriously faster - it should also calculate sin/cos.

btw. if to use 32bit dib sections it's very easy to rotate per 90*x degrees using simple operations, something like ar1(x,y) = ar2(y,x)
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[this message has been edited by semen matusovski (edited june 21, 2001).]