How to change checkbox orientation

[asu]

Hello,

I have not found a way to change the orientation of a checkbox control.

Checkbox Control:

Assume we have a fixed app orientation "Portrait"  but would like to havea checkbox text displayed in on screen horizontaly and  another checkbox rotated by 90 degrees (vertical text).

I have setup the screen with several layouts. The Layout.SetOrientation method had no effect on text orientation forsingle layouts.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Asu

[Steve Garman]

I don't think there is any way to do that in DroidScript with a checkbox control.

It sounds like it would be quite difficult to fake too.

[asu]

Thanks for your response Steve!

The only way I see to fake this is using a image control, draw both the checkbox square and text. Then by rotating the image 90° we have it turned. But the positioning is tricky...

What ist he Layout.SetOrientation (not app.SetOrientation) used for? I am not able to make sense of it.

[Chris Hopkin]

Layout.SetOrientation sets whether the child controls of a Linear Layout are stacked horizontally or vertically (accepts either "Horizontal" or "Vertical"). You'd normally set this as an option when you create the layout.

You could always use a CheckBox control with an empty label, then you just need to create the rotated label using an image, which you can add above/below the CheckBox (unless you wanted the CheckBox tick to be rotated too?).

[asu]

Thanks!

[BareK]

Hi all,

I know this thread is a bit old, but you can rotate the CheckBox tick too with the image tip given by Chris.

Simply replace the whole checkBox by an image using fontAwesome:

http://wiki.droidscript.me.uk/doku.php?id=built_in:images#example_-_fontawesome

Also look at the "Icon Fonts" sample for a fontAwesome checkbox example.

Cheers :)