Drawing vertical text

[philrosenberg]

I'm having a bit of trouble drawing text on a window. I am trying to get the text vertical so I'm getting the LOGFONT from the default font, spinning it 900 tenths of a degree then creationg a new font with this LOGFONT, selecting it with the DC and then using TextOut to output the text. However the text still appears horizontally. My code is below

CFont vertFont;
LOGFONT lf;
pDC->GetCurrentFont()->GetLogFont(&lf);
lf.lfOrientation=900;
vertFont.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
pDC->SelectObject(&vertFont);
pDC->TextOut(-50, 300, "Vertical Text");

if anyone can spot what I'm doing wrong I'd be very grateful

Phil

 

[teriviret]

This only works with TrueType fonts. What font are you using?

 

[philrosenberg]

thanks teriveret for the reply. After much searching through various forums I found this out. I was using the system font I have now changed to arial and it works. For anyone who views this thread later this is done by adding the line

strcpy(lf.lfFaceName,"Arial");