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Re: Vertical Text - part 3

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On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:19:44 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 19:44:46 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> 
>> Message-ID: <31e57656-27e3-46a4-abbd-a793c463adba@googlegroups.com>
>> From: e.d.programmer@gmail.com
>> 
>> Message-ID: <028164e2-9cba-4ba3-ad34-0cf46ae7210b@googlegroups.com>
>> From: FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com>
>>
> Those don't work at all: not true URIs. Annoyingly, the first one gets
> expanded to  /home/myuser/31e57656-27e3-46a4-abbd-
> a793c463adba@googlegroups.com and is reported as such in the resulting
> error message, but diving in to googlegroups from the top found the
> thread easily enough and you're right: it was e.d.programmer's second
> example that pressed all the right buttons.
> 
> Its late, so I'll scratch my head over a clean method of incorporating
> it into an existing subclass of JLabel tomorrow. Currently I'm
> considering making it into a Font creation class so I can hand its
> output to the JLabel subclass instances via setFont().

Following up: I already had a standard font I was using for this screen 
(monospaced, plain, 60pt) so I derived a font from it by applying 
e.d.programmer's Affine transform. The NameButton, which is the class 
that displays vertically formatted names was modified by removing the 
HTML formatting method, using the derived font in place of the standard 
font, and changing the vertical alignment from BOTTOM to TOP (otherwise 
the vertical font put all the text off the bottom of the display area. 
Everything is now working as before but now the row of names is only 60% 
of the height it previously occupied and is at least as readable as 
before. 

In case anybody is interested, the code to create the derived font is:

Font base = new Font(Font.MONOSPACED, Font.PLAIN, REFont.FONTSIZE);
AffineTransform a = new AffineTransform();
a.rotate(Math.PI / 2.0);
Font f = base.deriveFont(a);

where REFont.FONTSIZE us defined as:

public static int FONTSIZE = 10;


In case you want to see the effect of making this change, the original 
HTML-verticalised screenshot is here: 

http://www.gregorie.org/temp/Screenshot%20-%20020715.jpg

and the new, improved screenshot is here:

http://www.gregorie.org/temp/Screenshot%20-%20040715.png
 
This time round the screenshot shows how the screen looks on start-up 
because I didn't bother to light up all the pretty colours in the matrix, 
but they all work exactly as before and so does the click on/click off 
background colouring behind the names.

Thanks again to all who helped with example code and suggestions: the end 
result is exactly what I hoped for and, as a bonus, I've learnt another 
way to modify fonts.


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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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