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| From | Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Text orientation |
| Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:02:42 -0400 |
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On 08/24/2014 08:40 PM, 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? > > You may find some ideas here. Swing, but JavaFX should face similar issues. <http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/22/vertical_text.html>
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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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