Rotate Text - Y-Axis Title 1

[matt23lucier]

I have created a graphing program. I am going to put a title along the YAxis of the bar graph. Does anyone know how I can rotate the text so it is vertical from bottom to top instead of Horizontal from left to right?
thanks
Matt

 

[JurkMonkey]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k7282y7x(VS.80).aspx

Yay google....

 

[bouwob]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...or/dhtml/reference/properties/writingmode.asp

only works with ie, so if you need compatibility this will not work.

The only other method that I can think would be plausable is to convert the text to an image. There are a lot of tutorials doing this with php but I havn't yet seen any good tutorials with c#

 

[JurkMonkey]

Ah - you didn't say this was a web-app.

In that case you really are best to save the image and rotate it.

 

[matt23lucier]

JurkMonkey,
I went to the link and it did write the text vertically but it created it vertically from top to bottom (Rotated 90 degrees) instead of vertically from bottom to top (Rotated 270 degrees). Also this is not a web app it is a windows application.

 

[JurkMonkey]

I can look into this more later... but have you tried a transformation?

This is using a picturebox but it should work for a label too

private void pictureBox1_Paint(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e)
{
Graphics g = e.Graphics;


g.TranslateTransform(100.0f, 100.0f);
g.RotateTransform(-90.0f);
g.DrawString("Vertical Text", Font, Brushes.Blue, 0.0f, 0.0f);
g.ResetTransform();


g.TranslateTransform(100.0f, 100.0f);
g.RotateTransform(-45.0f);
g.DrawString("Slanted Text", new Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.Red, 0.0f, 0.0f);
g.ResetTransform();


}


taken from

http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms/FAQ_c73c.aspx

 

[matt23lucier]

JurkMonkey,
That worked. Thanks for you help.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Thanks for the star.

Glad I could help!