RotateGroupOnLeft does not seem to work correctly.

VCL TMS VCL UI Pack
1

Hello, we have recently purchased the TPlanner control and we are running into an issue regarding the RotateGroupOnLeft property. Instead of rotating the group caption and centering it (what i would expect, but correct me if this is wrong), it seems to move the caption label almost outside the group region. I only see a few small pixels at the bottom indicating there is some text there.

 
Is this a known bug, am I doing it wrong, and is there a way to accomplish what i expect?
2

I cannot reproduce a problem with this information. Please provide more details / exact steps / property settings etc... with which this problem can be reproduced.

3

What i did was pretty straight forward:

 
Drop TPlanner on a form, set time axis to horizontal, set PositionGroup to 1, add a string to Header.GroupCaptions, and set RotateGroupOnLeft to true.
4

Well, i seem to have found the problem. I read a bit more through the docs, and i noticed that another rotate property stated that i needed to use a true type font for that. Even though i thought MS Sans Serif (the default) is a true type font, changing it to Arial worked like a charm.

5

I'm going to be a bit nitpicky here but the group caption is not centered when it is Rotated and the planner is in horizontal mode.

6

This code used on a default Planner works without issues here:


procedure TForm4.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  planner1.Sidebar.Position  := spTop;
  planner1.PositionGroup := 1;
  planner1.Header.RotateGroupOnLeft := true;
  planner1.Header.GroupCaptions.Add('Group 1');
end;

Make sure you use a truetype font as only truetype fonts can be rotated