Re: [TCLCORE] The Big TIP Round-Up! #119

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> [ ... ] At the
> highest level, we'd add an argument to the APIs to draw text to specify
> the angle (we'd do this using new stub slots, and provide a set of
> backward compatability APIs selectable with a #def for people who don't
> want to modify their old code.)

Could we leave the current entry point as it is
and add a new function Tk_DrawRotatedChars() instead?
(The former could be implemented in terms of the latter,
of course).

That would save a whole lot of #ifdeffery, both in the core
and in extensions.


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...