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From: Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
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Subject: Re: Vertical Text - part 3
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:43:24 -0700
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On 7/2/2015 16:32, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes:
>> g.translate(0,-charHeight+10);
>
>    Today, I asked an old lady, and she told me that /her/
>    grandmother still used javax.swing when she was young.
>    Good old Swing!
>
> public class Main extends javafx.application.Application
> { @java.lang.Override
>    public void start( final javafx.stage.Stage primaryStage)
>    { final javafx.scene.control.Label text
>      = new javafx.scene.control.Label( "text" );
>      text.setRotate( 90 );
>      primaryStage.setScene( new javafx.scene.Scene( text ));
>      primaryStage.show(); }}
>
>    Disclaimer: I wanted the source code to be simplistic,
>    so it is possible that one has to manually adjust the
>    window to actually see the rotated label.
>

I thought he didn't want it rotated?  I thought he just wanted the text 
spaced closer together.

Us dinos still use Swing, what can I say?  I've got a lot of synapses 
invested in it.

knute...