Verticall Rotated Text

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Hello,

Is there any way to vertically rotate text like so (look at the vertical toolbar with the vertically oriented text in the toolbarbuttons):

https://ucarecdn.com/e1c116b8-715b-4920-9a8f-9c37e08c407b/

Unfortunately the closest I could get was learning how to programatically add a line to a caption; not much use xD.

Thanks for any tips.

[Blaazen]

You only need to set Font.Orientation to 900 or 2700.

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Thanks for the reply.

However, it didn't work. I even tried deleting the old toolbar and adding a new one in case I messed up any of the properties.

1. Added ToolBar
2. Add Button
3 In ToolBar properties, change value of 'Show Captions' to true (so that the caption on the button is displayed)
4. Click on the ToolBar, select 'Font' and change its sub-property of orientation to 900 [didn't work] and then to 2700 [didn't work]

If it makes any difference, I'm using GNU/Linux. Am I doing it right?

Cheers.

[wp]

I don't think that it is possible to rotate captions of a TToolbar...

What you show in your first post looks more like a TPageControl with rotated tabs (TabPosition = tpLeft).

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I don't think that it is possible to rotate a TToolbar...

What you show in your first post looks more like a TPageControl with rotated tabs (TabPosition = tpLeft).

Hey,

Okay, are you sure the control in the picture is a pagecontrol? I was thinking that it was just a button (because that's what it appears as), with this code:

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1. LeftSplitter.Visible := False; //With the SynEdit anchored to the left

If you think that it is a PageControl, what event should raise this?

Thanks.

[Blaazen]

Both TTabControl and TPageControl can do it with TabPosition property set to tpLeft or tpRight - at least on Qt widgetset. AFAIR GTk2 can also have tabs on the left/right but they are horizontal.

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Both TTabControl and TPageControl can do it with TabPosition property set to tpLeft or tpRight - at least on Qt widgetset. AFAIR GTk2 can also have tabs on the left/right but they are horizontal.

That could be my issue then, my tabcontrol reacts like GTk widget - it's horizontal when the tab position is tbLeft.

Thanks.

[Blaazen]

If you don't want to write your own component you can try TECTabCtrl from my EC-Controls. There it is implemented. It supports also multiline tabs and tab folding: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TECTabCtrl

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That's exactly what I need - example 5.

Cheers for your help!