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Re: Text orientation

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On 8/24/2014 17:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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?

Something like this work?

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test3 extends JFrame {
     private static final String vertText =
      "<html><body>V<br>e<br>r<br>t<br>i<br>c<br>a<br>l<br> <br>" +
      "T<br>e<br>x<br>t</body></html>";
     public test3() {
         setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
         add(new JLabel(vertText,JLabel.CENTER),BorderLayout.CENTER);
         pack();
         setVisible(true);
     }

     public static void main(String... args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 new test3();
             }
         });
     }
}


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Knute Johnson

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Text orientation Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-08-25 00:40 +0000
  Re: Text orientation Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-08-24 20:29 -0700
    Re: Text orientation Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-08-25 11:56 +0000
  Re: Text orientation Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-24 22:33 -0700
  Re: Text orientation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-25 04:02 -0400
    Re: Text orientation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-25 04:44 -0400
      Re: Text orientation Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-08-25 12:11 +0000

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