setSlant for DirectLabel or OnscreenText

Scripting Issues
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hi,
i am trying to put some text with slant (italics) using a DirectLabel or OnscreenText but i cant seem to find a relevent option. Since these are wrappers arround textNode i am sure that it can be done somehow.
Alternativelly i can create a textNode but i need it to be attached to a DirectFrame and i am not able to find how.
thanks for any help

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Text effects like slant, color, etc can be handled with the TextProperties manager.
Simply create a TextProperties variable, ser slant on it and add it to a TextProperiesManager instance with a specific tag name you then can directly use in the text to tell where the effect starts and ends.

Take a look here for further description and samples:

http://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Embedded_Text_Properties

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A DirectFrame is a NodePath like any other, which means that you should be able to simply reparent your TextNode’s NodePath to the DirectFrame. Something like this:

self.myFrame = DirectFrame(<parameters here>)

self.myTextNode = TextNode(<text-node name here>)
self.myTextNodeNP = NodePath(self.myTextNode)

self.myTextNodeNP.reparentTo(self.myFrame)
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Thanks for both answers they were actually complementory. it works like i wanted

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