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Is there any way to rotate a label to a certain degree?

_guictrlrotate($labelthatiwanttorotate, clockwise, 180)

That would rotate the label so that it would be upside down...

Is there a function or UDF that someone has made to do this?

If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it! :whistle:

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Ugh. Here is what's involved:

1) Save the current font handle

2) GetObject on the current font

3) Set the lfEscapement value of the LOGFONT record return to the angle to be rotated

4) CreateFontIndirect to create the new font

5) SelectObject to select the new font

6) Write the label text

7) SelectObject to restore the original font handle

8) DeleteObject to delete the temporary font

And this is just off the top of my head... :whistle:

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Ugh. Here is what's involved:

1) Save the current font handle

2) GetObject on the current font

3) Set the lfEscapement value of the LOGFONT record return to the angle to be rotated

4) CreateFontIndirect to create the new font

5) SelectObject to select the new font

6) Write the label text

7) SelectObject to restore the original font handle

8) DeleteObject to delete the temporary font

And this is just off the top of my head... :whistle:

I would just turn to whole damn screen ... ;)

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Ugh. Here is what's involved:

1) Save the current font handle

2) GetObject on the current font

3) Set the lfEscapement value of the LOGFONT record return to the angle to be rotated

4) CreateFontIndirect to create the new font

5) SelectObject to select the new font

6) Write the label text

7) SelectObject to restore the original font handle

8) DeleteObject to delete the temporary font

And this is just off the top of my head... :whistle:

Blah, much to complicated...

1) Create the label using the standard GuiCreate method

2) Capture the Label, using one of one the graphics capture functions from the forum

3) Rotate the Graphic by using the 3D rotate function from the forum

See, easy! lol ;)

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Blah, much to complicated...

1) Create the label using the standard GuiCreate method

2) Capture the Label, using one of one the graphics capture functions from the forum

3) Rotate the Graphic by using the 3D rotate function from the forum

See, easy! lol ;)

Uh... no! (but you made me think there for a moment). :whistle: It should be that easy, but Microsoft took care of that for us...
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If I really wanted to... I could make labels on the background color I want... put them all in paint... rotate them, and then save them all as different pictures, and create pictures in my GUI...

I don't really want to rotate the label after it is on the GUI, I want to have it rotated before It goes onto the GUI, but I guess if the function is made to rotate it after the GUI shows, that will be fine too. :whistle:

Thanks Valuater, for the link, I hope it will help me, just downloaded the file from peethebee's fileman! ;). Going to go test it ATM.

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If you created each letter as a label, then you could position each letter as you wanted with GUICtrlSetPos

This is a just a quick and dirty example... :whistle:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
; == GUI generated with Koda ==);
$Test = GUICreate("AForm1", 312, 138, 192, 125)
GUISetFont(18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$T  = GUICtrlCreateLabel("T", 16, 16, 20, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$H = GUICtrlCreateLabel("H", 40, 16, 21, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$I = GUICtrlCreateLabel("I", 64, 16, 10, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$S = GUICtrlCreateLabel("S", 72, 16, 20, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$I2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("I", 104, 16, 10, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$S = GUICtrlCreateLabel("S", 112, 16, 20, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$T2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("T", 136, 16, 20, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$E = GUICtrlCreateLabel("E", 160, 16, 20, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$X = GUICtrlCreateLabel("X", 184, 16, 21, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$T3 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("T", 208, 16, 20, 33, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 18, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

For $Xpos = 16 to 110
    GUICtrlSetPos($T2,136,$Xpos) 
    sleep(10)
Next

For $Xpos = 16 to 110
    GUICtrlSetPos($E,160,$Xpos) 
    sleep(10)
Next

For $Xpos = 16 to 110
    GUICtrlSetPos($X,184,$Xpos) 
    sleep(10)
Next

For $Xpos = 16 to 110
    GUICtrlSetPos($T3,208,$Xpos) 
    sleep(10)
Next
This shows the basic idea.

In the actual program you would use $Stringsplit to create each letter on its own and do some simple calculations to get the correct spacings.

You would then be able to position the letters however you want. ;)

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peethebee's functions are really great... but I don't think that is what I was looking for...

I don't really NEED this... It is just for a script I am making right now to make it look better, it is not essential that I have this... and lakes... there are like 1000 letters that i would have to make labels for! :whistle:

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peethebee's functions are really great... but I don't think that is what I was looking for...

I don't really NEED this... It is just for a script I am making right now to make it look better, it is not essential that I have this... and lakes... there are like 1000 letters that i would have to make labels for! :whistle:

Ok, a 1000 is a lot, sorry.

If I were doing this I would write a script to do it for me rather than do it by hand, this was just a quick proof of concept really, and it does`nt rotate the actual letters just moves them.

So that

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or anything you want.

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