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Hi there,

I find a need for rotating a text field, that contains the current time, to 90 degrees relative to its normal orientation.
It looks on the face of it like this is not possible. Does anyone know a workaround for doing this..?

I considered taking a snapshot of the field.. converting to an image.. then rotating the image through 90.
This seems a bit overkill once a second

Did a search and everyone who has done this has done it with images. What exactly are you needing this for? There may be a better way than taking snapshots...

Gerry

Hi there,

I have a digital clock read out like : " 21:33:45"
Its quite difficult... na.. impossible, for me to fit this into my ui now, in the normal orientation.
I designed the whole ui based on this being rotated 90.
I had thought this was not a problem from memory, and now i am at that stage i am a bit snookered.

Currently i have the clock showing in a not so acceptable way :

21
:
33
:
45

It is a completely graphical ui, you can see a shot of what i am doing here : http://www.garysimpson.co.uk/

Hi Gary

If you had images of 0-9 and a background image with the colons all rotated you could use buttons with icons.

Cheers

Monte

Hi there,

Yes i think i must go down that road, as i cant change the aspect of the paycard.
It is a faithful re-production of our local parking card in the Channel Islands.
Thank you for helping me see my only other option. Cheers.

I was thinking along the same lines as Monte but now I'm intrigued: your app is a timer? How are you alerting the user once they quit your app?

Gerry

Hi there,

There are local notifications coming in the next build of livecode.
They lend themselves perfectly to this kind of app

So there are

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