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Tkinter - Drawing rotated text in a widget

How do I draw rotated text in a Tkinter widget using the draw.text method?

Alternatively, if I draw text as normal, how can I then subsequently
rotate it about its start point?
Mar 12 '06 #1
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In article <ma***************************************@python. org>,
Eric Apperley <ea*******@clear.net.nz> wrote:
How do I draw rotated text in a Tkinter widget using the draw.text method?

Alternatively, if I draw text as normal, how can I then subsequently
rotate it about its start point?


Not easily.

The (base) Tk-ers have written a bit on this subject:
<URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/rotate >.
Mar 12 '06 #2

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