Vertical text in Tkinter Canvas

Question

Is there a way to draw vertical text in Tkinter library? (Python recommended)

textID = w1.create_text(5, 5, anchor=\"nw\")
w1.itemconfig(textID, text = \"Thi         


        

Answer 1

If you are asking whether tkinter.Canvas.create_text has something like this:

textID = w1.create_text(5, 5, anchor="nw", orient=tkinter.VERTICAL)

then the answer is no. The create_text method can only create horizontal text.

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However, you can use str.join to create vertical text:

from tkinter import Tk, Canvas
root = Tk()
canvas = Canvas()
canvas.grid()
canvas.create_text((10, 5), text="\n".join("This is some text"), anchor="nw")
root.mainloop()

Example:

While this may not be as elegant as simply setting an option on the create_text method, it does work.