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Index › Programming Questions & Help › Syntax Questions › Easy question: Rotating text

jkeirstead YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13

Easy question: Rotating text? Mar 20th, 2006, 12:52pm   Hi, This should be really easy but I can't seem to get it to work.  In the following sketch, if I comment out the rotate line things are fine.  But when I try to rotate the text, I just get a blank sketch.  What am I missing? Quote: PFont myFont = loadFont("Georgia-BoldItalic-48.vlw"); size(200,200); textFont(myFont); rotate(-PI/2); text("test",100,100); Thanks, James

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341	Re: Easy question: Rotating text? Reply #1 - Mar 20th, 2006, 1:20pm   This schould work: Quote: PFont myFont = loadFont("Georgia-BoldItalic-48.vlw"); size(200,200); textFont(myFont); pushMatrix(); translate(100,100); rotate(-PI/2); text("test",0,0); popMatrix();
	Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

jkeirstead YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Easy question: Rotating text? Reply #2 - Mar 20th, 2006, 3:16pm   I knew I was missing something obvious.  For future readers who are wondering, the key step is translating the origin to the middle of your text; otherwise the text might be rotated about a far-away point until it's out of view. Thanks!