Re: Writing text at an angle on a VB Form

In article <devdbl$kpm$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike Williams <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
><no.addr@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:devb00$ffb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Thanks again for your response.

>> For the time being, it is all right but will be glad to learn if a
>> better way [rotated text] exists in Word.
>
>One way of getting text at 90 degree rotation in Word is to use a Table
>(either for a complete portion of your page or maybe just a single cell
>Table for a single word or phrase). Select any cell of the Table and use
>the menu Format / Text Direction. For more control than this you can
>instead use WordArt, which is quite flexible. If WordArt isn't installed
>on your version of Word then you'll need to install it. Then use the MS
>Word menu Insert / Picture / WordArt. Ok, now back to Visual Basic . . .

That is a great idea. Yes, I have seen this. Let me see if I can do
this in the header or footer. I need to record the month and year of a
couple of documents at the edge of the page vertically in something
like a 5 or 6 point font. I had tried Word Art, but did not see any
good choice for writing vertically (text with each letter turned 90
degrees.)

>. .
>
>> Isn't there a simpler way [30 degree rotated text on a Form
>> for which I posted a CreateFontIndirect solution]?
>
>Nope.
>
>> For doing simple things, we have to add a fair amount of code
>> in VB. Looks like I again have to learn new things, and soon I
>> will be a programmer.
>
>Well, I'm afraid I do have to point out that Visual Basic is a
>*programming language*! It is intended to give *programmers* the basic
>tools from which they can build solutions.

Still, there are differences between languages and the kind of things
available in languages. The bare commands of C (is that 17 or how
many?) cannot help you do very much. On the other hand, Visual Basic
has millions of things (even in version 3), but some obvious and
simple things seem to need API routines to be included and called. If
fonts can be made bold or italic by a single command, what prevents
them from allowing angles?

>If you want a ready made
>application that allows you to draw rotated text without any effort at
>all then you should buy yourself a drawing program or a paint program.
>But that's all you'll be able to do with it (draw and paint).
>Programming languages, on the other hand, can be used to perform almost
>any task you want, as long as you are prepared to write some code.
>Programming languages are for programmers ;-)
>
>> Is it not possible to download VB3 from somewhere?
>> Or does Microsoft still try to sell it?
>
>Haven't seen it for download anywhere. In fact I haven't seen it for
>sale either (at least not legitimate copies). It doesn't really bother
>me too much though, because I don't use VB3 and I have no intention of
>ever doing so. I just thought that if a copy was available for free
>somewhere then it would help me to answer your questions. Not to worry.
>I'll just concentrate on answers for questions about VB5 and VB6 (which
>I do have).

Even your answers in terms of VB6 are quite useful to me. I can figure
out (usually) how to modify them to make them work in VB3. There is a
lot of material on the Internet, which too I can search (once I know
the right words to look for.) Again, I am not trying to become a
programmer, but some smaller things are best done oneself rather than
explain it to programmers and then get fancy and extra-fancy code for
very simple things.

>
>> Does this mean that every font comes with some in built
>> capability to be displayed at .lfEscapement angles?
>
>All True Type fonts can be displayed at any angle you wish (both on the
>display and on the printer). Most of the fonts on a typical Windows
>computer are True Type fonts.
>
>Mike
>

















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