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

[Peter S. <pet...@sp...>]

>Simon Geard wrote:
>
>> I've updated my patch for this to tk8.4.5  To try it go to 
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/whiteowl/angledText/patchinfo.html and 
>> follow the instructions there. This patch does not use any X 
>> extensions and should work for X11R3 and above.
>

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>Ooh!  Interesting stuff!  Time to pick nits...  ;^)
>
>Second point: Win and OSX have native text rotation 
>apparently.  Someone 
>would need to make that work since that would be faster than doing all 
>the work ourselves.  :^)

I played a bit with rotating text on Windows a year or so
ago and know this is doable.
Time has not been permitting lately but I will try to help
out with the Windows side of this TIP.

/Peter