text.rotation property

[The Windows Gadget Platform/Sidebar is available for use in the operating systems specified in the Requirements section. It may be altered or unavailable in subsequent versions. ]

Gets or sets the degree of rotation applied to the g:text element.

This property is read/write.

Syntax

rotation = text.rotation
text.rotation = rotation

Property value

A Floating-point that specifies or receives the degree of rotation. Positive values indicate clockwise rotation and negative values indicate counter-clockwise rotation.

(0)

Default. No rotation applied. The target element is not modified.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to rotate the g:text element from a gadget script file.

\\ imgBackground is the value of the 'id' attribute for the g:background element.
var txtRotation = imgBackground.addTextObject("test", "Verdana", 25, "Red", intX, intY);
txtRotation.rotation = 90.0;

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only]
End of client support	Windows 7
End of server support	Windows Server 2008
Header	D2d1helper.h
IDL	Sidebar.idl
DLL	Sidebar.Exe (version 1.00 or later)

See also

Reference

background

image

text