Vertical Text in Wpf TextBlock

Question

Is it possible to display the text in a TextBlock vertically so that all letters are stacked upon each other (not rotated with LayoutTransform)?

Answer 1

make the text container's max width to allow for one char only and wrap the text:

<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" MaxWidth="8" TextAlignment="Center" Text="stack" />

Answer 2

create a stackpanel with a bunch ot textblocks that take one char

Answer 3

Here's a way to insert a '\n' after every character in the text of the TextBlock, that way making it display vertically:

<TextBlock x:Name="VertTextBlock" Text="Vertical Text" Loaded="VertTextBlock_Loaded"></TextBlock>

Then, in the Loaded event handler, you say:

TextBlock tb = sender as TextBlock;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(tb.Text);
int len = tb.Text.Length * 2;

for (int i = 1; i < len; i += 2)
{
    sb.Insert(i, '\n');
}

tb.Text = sb.ToString();

That solution was proposed by Lette, but I believe my implementation incurs less overhead.

Answer 4

the accepted answer suggested by Ray Burns does not work for me on .net 4.0. Here is how I did it:

pull in the mscorlib

xmlns:s="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"

put in your usercontrol/window/page resources

<s:String x:Key="SortString">Sort</s:String>

and use it like this

<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource SortString}}" Margin="5,-1,0,0"   />    

hope it helps!

Answer 5

Below XAML code changes the angle of text displayed in a textblock.

<TextBlock Height="14"
        x:Name="TextBlock1"
        Text="Vertical Bottom to Up" Margin="73,0,115,0" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" >
        <TextBlock.RenderTransform>
            <TransformGroup>
                <ScaleTransform/>
                <SkewTransform/>
                <RotateTransform Angle="-90"/>
                <TranslateTransform/>
            </TransformGroup>
        </TextBlock.RenderTransform>
 </TextBlock>

Answer 6

Make an image and fill the block with the image, use photoshop or something designed to manipulate text instead of fiddling in code ?