How to rotate a rptlabel 90 degree

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I want to rotate a rptlabel in vb6 report 90 degree
in runtime

What I have tried:

I found this function SetWorldTransform from qdi32 library
but it's want hDc value of rptlabel and I don't know how to get it

Posted 22-May-19 6:09am

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Updated 17-Jun-19 0:59am

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[no name] 22-May-19 21:33pm

"Upgrade" to WPF and use RotateTransform.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2019-06-17T00:59:00

hDC => Device Context handle

If you still are using VB6, i'm afraid you can not get handle of label. There's only few controls which expose hDC, for example: PictureBox. So, you have to draw own text in PictureBox to be able to display rotated text.
Text in a Picture box - Visual Basic (Classic) - Tek-Tips[^]

For further details, please see:
Bitwise Magazine :: Visual Basic 6 - Graphics Programming[^]
Scale, Translate, Shear, Reflect and Rotate graphics using World Transformation technique[^]