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[jeffhoye]

As far as I can tell, the Label is only allowed to draw words horizontally.  Similarly, the Slider class can only be used horizontally.  Is there a layout or some other technique that will draw a widget rotated 90 degrees?

Thanks!
-Jeff

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Well, you could extend the Label and override the drawWidget() method. It gets a Texture2DCanvas instance. This is a Graphics2D implementation, which handles affine transforms. The clipping and pixel handling should be able to deal with that just fine.

[jeffhoye]

Attempting to make the Label vertical was too complicated for me to figure out, but I managed to get a workaround in my game. 

I added the capability to have a vertical slider.  I believe it works great.  I used the same design as in Scrollbar (with the 2 descriptions).  I added the example to WidgetTest1 in xith-tk.  Make sure to update GTK.xwt to get the new images, and build so it goes to the bin directory.

For the Slider's constructors:
  There's a conflict between reverse compatibility and forward clarity.  I went with the fully reverse compatible approach, perhaps you want to rework it to make it more clear moving forward. 

Thanks!
-Jeff