Add Rotated Text to Save Space and Improve Understanding
There
are times you may want to display data vertically or at an angle on your
forms and reports.
The Text Effects control in Total Access Components lets you easily
display rotated text on your Microsoft Access forms and reports. You can
even bind the control directly to a field from your recordsource.
Save space with vertical text, and spice up the display of text on
your forms and reports. You can change the angle that text is displayed,
and choose various three-D styles.
Vertical Labels on Reports
Adding rotated text for your column headings can let you squeeze in
longer descriptions for your labels so your users better understand
their data.
Using the Text Effects Control
Simply insert the Text Effects control on your form or report and
size it. Then set these properties to customize your rotated text:
- Angle (from 0 to 360 degrees)
- Text you want to show
- Font, style, and point size
- Colors (back color and fore color)
- Text Style: normal, 3-D or sunken
- Location: center, left, right, top or bottom
- Word wrapping
Animating
Rotating Text
By changing the angle, you can create rotated text animation. This
requires a little programming to modify the angle property, refresh the
screen with the DoPaint event, and repeat.
Examples are in the sample database.
Programmatic Options
No programming is required to use this control; however, all properties can be set via VBA,
and there are events for mouse clicks and key presses.
