Check the _rotation checkbox, and then adjust the value of the SpinEdit just below it, to rotate the selected control.

This is especially useful for rotating Text items, as the two text item examples on the Stage show.

Notice that the direction of _rotation may be the opposite of what you might expect: a positive angle is clockwise from horizontal. To make a 90-degree rotated text item read in the usual way, i.e. from bottom to top, you need to set the _rotation to -90 degrees.

It may surprise you to know that all controls, even the Horizontal Slider, will work perfectly even when rotated.  We don't know why you might want to orient your slider at -43 degrees as we've done here, but we hope it's comforting to know that you can!

 

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