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adino

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Hi All,
Maybe a stupid question but I search around unable to find any mention:
is there a way to write text vertically in a gauge using fs9 style in XML? I have a rectangle and I want to write a text vertically in it but I cannot find a way to do it.
Something like this. I cannot find a good explanation in the SDK. thank you.

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Hello Adino, - Could You paste a jpeg, or bmp that You created in photo shop, or gimp ?? Or could You write Your text one letter , one line at a time ?? - Johnman
 
johnman said:
Hello Adino, - Could You paste a jpeg, or bmp that You created in photo shop, or gimp ?? Or could You write Your text one letter , one line at a time ?? - Johnman
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Yes I already have a bitmap but because of the bitmap size constrains to fit within this gauge it doesn't look sharp so I rather go with the text option hopefully it can be sharper...but I cannot find a suitable example how to write a text vertical using text formatting.

This is what I have but obviously it writes horizontally:

Code: 
      <Element Name="MAX SPEED FLAG">
         <Visible>(L:Vmo, bool) (L:Mmo,bool) or (L:dclutter, bool) 0 == and</Visible> 
         <Position X="48" Y="65"/>   
         <Rectangle Width="9" Height="62" FillColor="Gold" Bright="Yes" Luminous="Yes" LineWidth="0"/>
         <Element>     
            <Position X="2" Y="2"/>
            <Text Axis="0,0" WidthFit="true" VerticalAlign="bottom" PointsTo="west" Luminous="Yes" X="40" Y="9" Length="10" Font="Arial" FontSize="9" Color="red" VerticalAdjust="Center" Multiline="yes" >
               <String>MAX SPD</String>
            </Text>
         </Element>         
      </Element>
 
johnman said:
Or could You write Your text one letter , one line at a time ?? - Johnman
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This is how I did it, although you must use <FormattedText> rather than <Text>.
See XML: Escape Sequences here in the FSDev WIKI for more info.
Here it is, tested in the sim (full size) :
Image2.png

XML: 
<Element Name="MAX SPEED FLAG">
    <Visible>(L:Vmo, bool) (L:Mmo,bool) or (L:dclutter, bool) 0 == and</Visible>
    <Position X="48" Y="65"/>         
        <Element Name="MAX SPD STRING">           
            <FormattedText X="9" Y="62" Length="1" Luminous="Yes" Font="ArialBlack" FontSize="9" FontWeight="800" BackgroundColor="Gold" Color="Red" LineSpacing="8">
                <String>
                    %\{lsp=3}% %\{lsp}\n
                    %\{tabs=0L,4C}\t%M%\n
                    %\{tabs=0L,4C}\t%A%\n
                    %\{tabs=0L,4C}\t%X%\n
                    %\{lsp=7}% %\{lsp}\n
                    %\{tabs=0L,4C}\t%S%\n
                    %\{tabs=0L,4C}\t%P%\n
                    %\{tabs=0L,4C}\t%D%\n                                               
                </String>   
            </FormattedText>           
        </Element>         
</Element>
 
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Roman, I'm not sure how you made this work but I found this wiki on the subject so I will try to decipher this crypto language :)

XML: Escape Sequences - FSDeveloper Wiki

www.fsdeveloper.com www.fsdeveloper.com
@johnman: My bad I did not understand you were referring to this but anyway I don't have the skills to this with this formatted text method I will study it now. Thank you all for your help!
 
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