[Lazarus] TStringGrid Orientation

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> Am 2012-08-11 16:40, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
>> I am struggling with a 90 degree text output in a TStringGrid cell.
>> So far I have got it working with the following OnPrepareCanvas event 
>> procedure:
>> ...
>> but there is lots of (unnecessary) white space before and after the 
>> text as shown in
>> http://image-upload.de/image/es9ThD/cf9fc08cfd.png
>> Any ideas how to avoid this?
>>
> 
> It seems nobody has an idea how it can be done.
> I already fought quite a lot with grids before but
> got it reasonable working when doing fundamental
> things only. It seems that grids in Lazarus are very
> rudimentarily implemented. There are quite a lot of
> things missing to make them usable (i.e. AutoSizeRow()).
> Too bad.
> 
> Do any alternatives exist?
> Or do I have to do it all from cratch myself?

It's not so much grids that are rudimentary as labels. Being able to 
have labels at 45deg so as to remain readable whilst not inflating 
narrow columns would be similarly useful.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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