Vertical Text

[mcmullan]

How can I create a text field on a panel that displays the text vertically...e.g.

M
y
T
E
X
T

instead of the normal...

MyText

I now that you can rotate the text field but that is not what is needed.

[kilianvp]

You can't rotate a Textfield!

If you don't use it as Input you can use a "TEXT_EDIT" (multiline Textfield)
and append every char as new line

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main(mapping event)
{
 shape target = getShape("TEXT_EDIT3");
 formatString(target, "Hello World");
}

void formatString(shape target, string input)
{
  int temp;
  for (int i = 0; i < strlen(input); i++)
  {
    temp = i;
   target.append(strwalk(input, temp));
  }
}