Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

2006-07-17 Thread Matt Hoosier
Yes, I agree with all those concerns. Just trying to look for the "least bad" way to do this :) On 7/17/06, David Nečas (Yeti) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:09:37PM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote: > > This is occurring inside of a widget which auto-responds to locale > > chang

Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

2006-07-17 Thread Yeti
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:09:37PM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote: > This is occurring inside of a widget which auto-responds to locale > changes. I'd hoped to avoid iterating across (and reformatting) the > input whenever a set_text() call occurs. Well, I don't know anything that could do the right th

Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

2006-07-17 Thread Matt Hoosier
This is occurring inside of a widget which auto-responds to locale changes. I'd hoped to avoid iterating across (and reformatting) the input whenever a set_text() call occurs. Thanks On 7/17/06, David Nečas (Yeti) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:28:43PM -0500, Matt Hoosier

Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

2006-07-17 Thread Yeti
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:28:43PM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote: > Does anybody have some ideas about a clean way to format some text as > a vertical marquee without resorting to Pango layout/font > manipulation? I.e., if "foobar" is the text, then it should be > rendered with the characters stacked o

Displaying text as a vertical marquee

2006-07-17 Thread Matt Hoosier
Does anybody have some ideas about a clean way to format some text as a vertical marquee without resorting to Pango layout/font manipulation? I.e., if "foobar" is the text, then it should be rendered with the characters stacked one atop the other: f o o b a r Thanks, Matt