Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] MR10358: comctl32:Add TrueType font support for vertically tab text.

[Zhiyi Zhang (＠zhiyi)]

On Mon Mar 23 10:08:19 2026 +0000, Maotong Zhang wrote:
> Yes. For non TT fonts, rotation usually doesn’t work.
> I tried drawing vertical text using the System font, which is a bitmap font on Windows. The text is drawn vertically. So maybe we should fix CreateFontIndirectA() or ExtTextOutW() instead.
    case WM_PAINT:
    {
        PAINTSTRUCT ps;
        HDC hdc;
        RECT rect;
        LOGFONTA logfont = { 0 };
        HFONT old_font, font2;

        hdc = wParam ? (HDC)wParam : BeginPaint( hwnd, &ps );

        logfont.lfEscapement = 900;
        logfont.lfOrientation = 900;
        logfont.lfHeight = -12;
        logfont.lfWeight = FW_NORMAL;
        strcpy(logfont.lfFaceName, "System");
        font2 = CreateFontIndirectA(&logfont);

        SetRect(&rect, 50, 50, 100, 100);
        old_font = SelectObject(hdc, font2);

        ExtTextOutW(hdc, 50, 50, ETO_OPAQUE, &rect, L"12345", 5, 0);
        SelectObject(hdc, old_font);
        DeleteObject(font2);

        if ( !wParam ) EndPaint( hwnd, &ps );
        return 0;
    }

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10358#note_133350