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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>