Rotating the JTextArea using mouse in java

Question

I recently worked on the MS PowerPoint 2007 and I got interested in rotation option of the text in the presentation Window .

Now I have created a JTextArea with some text in it.

Now what I want is I want to rotate the JTextArea by mouse (similar in MS PowerPoint 2007)

But I got no Idea of how to start .

Thanks in advance

write what have you tried and where you are facing problem exactly. — Rais Alam, Jul 08 '13 at 04:45
@Rais Alam I want to know how to rotate the JTextarea in the mouse direction how to do that — Learning Java, Jul 08 '13 at 04:57
It's not that it isn't possible, it's just hard to find the right example. Check out [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14324460/rotating-a-jtextfield-vertically/14328881#14328881) which uses JXLayer — MadProgrammer, Jul 08 '13 at 05:05
Please note that this is not a "please send me the code" site. You may want to show what you accomplished so far, how you are going to do the rotation and what problems you ran into. — Howard, Jul 08 '13 at 05:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '13 at 05:51

If you just don't know how to start, here is a hint:

implement a MouseMotionListener to track the MousePosition
to rotate components you can override their paintComponent(Graphics g) method and rotate with ((Graphics2D)g).rotate(degreeInRadians). Keep in mind that this probably crops your components.

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