vertical text

[Erwin Timmerman]

Hi all,

CVI 6 does not have vertical text boxes. Does 7.1 have them? That would be a reason for me to upgrade. I need to plot text vertically on a graph, and not

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The canvas rotate trick or double graph trick is a lot of work, when this should be a simple feature. I've read that in labview it is there, why not in CVI?

The ideal thing would be if PlotText could make the text go vertical, but vertical text messages would be OK too.

Any thoughts?

[Wendy L]

Hello Erwin,

CVI 7.1 does not have a vertical text message or string control, but as you noted from this post, you can use a canvas or graph labels to create the same effect.  If you would like a modification of the PlotText function or a vertical text control considered for a future release of CVI, I would suggest making a product suggestion on the issue.

Thanks.

[Erwin Timmerman]

Thanks for the reply Wendy.

I have suggested the following improvements:

- Text messages that have a 90 degree rotation (including characters).
- PlotText on a graph that has 90 degree rotation
- Graph X-axis division labels that have 90 degree rotation, in case the labels are very long (with high precision numbers for example).

The third option became only obvious to me after someone else suggested it. It should be settable and not automatic, because the graph area would decrease a lot when the division labels became higher and higher 🙂 It is a matter of preference in each case what would be the best option.

In the mean time I will look into the canvas option. The extra graph would be very inconventient as I want to plot 20-something text labels on a graph, preferrably moveable. If I come up with a handy tool to use it conveniently I'll share it here.

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Edit: This GetRotatedBitmap is a CVI 7 thing, is it not? I can't find it in CVI6.

Message Edited by Erwin Timmerman on 07-13-2005 09:07 PM