Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Text orientation Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="620"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SUuCgvsMxlBRt10SBH+LGR4VuxlTaL8A=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XyqeR6P9sHKhdmXS7YbvTsikW1s= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29845 I will soon need to write a scheduling program that manipulates a rectangular matrix with a list of personal names labelling the columns and dates labelling the rows. This aspect, along with the processes needed to load data into the matrix, manipulate it and save it are well - understood, but I have a display formatting issue with the column labels: is there any way that a Java program can align these labels vertically like most spreadsheets can, i.e. display the names vertically with the first letter at the top? The matrix I need to display can run to 25 or so rows and columns but each cell can be quite small (think of holding two 10pt characters), which means the whole matrix should easily fit onto a display if the column labels can be painted as vertically aligned text. I can't find any hint that this may be possible with AWT/Swing, but did I miss something? Alternatively, is it possible with JavaFX? -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |