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Re: Vertical Text - part 3

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On 07/01/2015 12:54 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> First off, apologies for starting a new thread. I fat fingered 'Ignore
> thread' in Pan when I was intending to toggle a marker on one of the
> posts in the thread (hay fever is bad today  -at least that's my excuse
> and I'm sticking to it)
>
> Fortunately I managed to find that Jeff's and Knute's last posts were
> still in Pan's cache so I was able to recover their example source and
> try it out. Jeff's last trick (using an AffineTransform to rotate the
> Font so it prints vertically does everything I asked for, so I'll go with
> that: many thanks, Jeff. In fact, because its a modified Font rather than
> an image, it should do one other thing I forgot to mention as well.

I'd love to take credit but I didn't post any code using AT.
Perhaps e.d.programmer - who I just dinged for not matching
your requirements. Or FredK.

>
> To explain: this is a rostering application with two rows of JLabels
> across the top and down the left side of a matrix. The JLabels along the
> top list people to be rostered while those down the side of the matrix
> list dates. To roster somebody (or cancel a roster assignment) you click
> a name JLabel and a date JLabel in either order. To make this a bit
> easier in case you get interrupted, the JLabels act like illuminated push
> on/push off switches so that when either type of label is clicked its
> background changes colour to show that it is selected. This is cleared
> either by clicking the other type of label to complete the rostering
> action or by a second click on the selected one to cancel its selection.
> Needless to say, rostering a person or cancelling an assignment affects
> the body of the matrix, which is simply a display area showing the
> current state of play.
>
> Anyway, many thanks to all of you who were kind enough to post code. It
> was interesting to see how this sort of task can be tackled and and I've
> learnt quite a bit about uses of the Affine transform.
>
>

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Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-01 16:54 +0000
  Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-01 18:25 -0400
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-01 23:09 +0000
      Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-01 19:44 -0400
        Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 00:19 +0000
          Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-04 18:18 +0000
  Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-02 09:09 -0400
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-07-02 07:24 -0700
      Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-02 10:36 -0400
        Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 18:38 +0000
          Re: Vertical Text - part 3 e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-07-02 12:54 -0700
            Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 21:55 +0000
              Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-02 18:46 -0400
                Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-03 10:38 +0000
                Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-07-03 16:44 +0100
          Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-07-02 16:21 -0700
            Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-07-02 16:43 -0700
      Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 18:01 +0000
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 17:44 +0000
  Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-03 08:20 -0400
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-03 10:01 -0400

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