Drawing rotated strings in a lua app tele window

Hi all,
For a project I am working on now, I needed to draw some rotated character strings .. in my case only numbers. I looked around for some good single line fonts and found an interesting website that had a nice simple font. It's an old-school-looking font. Links are in the app source file.

I was a little concerned about CPU usage, and it turns out if you draw it with the anti-alias rendering API it consumes about 2% of CPU per character drawn, which is manageable in my case.

You can find the code and a test app on my github page: github.com/davidmcq137/JetiLuaDFM/blob/0.../misclua/hp1345a.lua

I hope this is of some use to other lua app developers.

Dave

Hi Dave,
that's extrem nice!
Thank you for sharing this.

Ingmar

Sometimes when we are coding, we laugh out loud at dumb things we do (well, at least I do!)

First time I went to use this I realized I forgot to include the minus sign, so I could not do negative numbers...
Here is an update: github.com/davidmcq137/JetiLuaDFM/blob/1.../misclua/hp1345a.lua

The project I am working on is an instrument panel generator with a number of different gauges and widgets that are drawn with a drag and drop interface on a website .. then downloaded with a companion lua app to the TX. It uses the same pilot-specific data download idea as my maps app.

Here is the example panel that was driving this "characters on an angle" work. Soon I will be asking if anyone is interested in beta testing.