Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!andreww From: andreww@uniwa.uwa.oz (Andrew John Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Draw Rotated String Message-ID: <1991May8.015923.18676@uniwa.uwa.oz> Date: 8 May 91 01:59:23 GMT References: Organization: University of Western Australia Lines: 29 ba0k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian Patrick Arnold) writes: >Howdy, > today I was trying to tackle a small feat of drawing rotated text at >90 degrees "up" using simple bitmap manipulations until my brain >hemmoraged. > Having stared at Pascal code for too many years, I am at this moment >unable to grasp the fundamentals of bit manipulation. I figure somebody >knowledgeable on this wonderful net ought to be able to help jar my >brain back into functioning again. Does anybody know of a book that >describes bitmap rotation, or of some sample code? All I need to do is >stand some text on its side going up vertically. Somebody please help >an aspiring Mac programmer whose brain has gone "doooiiinnnng." Not >that it matters for this problem, but I use MacApp. Please e-mail or at >least echo responses directly to me, and thank you for any help you can >provide. >- Brian I saw a very nice bitmap rotate a while back - used nothing but CopyBits. Now if I could only remember where it was. It was in some book, of a set of (I think) 2 from some Mac mag. WHAT WAS IT CALLED?? Definitely worth having, whatever it was... John West (stealing Andrew's account) My fish has lost its memory too