building cross-platform Windows and Mac

[Bob Sneidar]

The way I got around this is I made a PNG of the character I wanted, imported it, named it and then set the imageSource of the first character of the line to my png like so:

set the imageSource of char 1 of line theHilitedLine of me to  “bullet.png"

Now I have a bulleting system that will work on all platforms (that recognize PNG anyway). 

This method has the added advantage of allowing you to use *ANYTHING* as a bullet or checkmark or whatever. 

Bob S


> On Jan 5, 2015, at 14:59 , Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/5/2015 5:53 PM, william humphrey wrote:
>> I noticed that √ which is a checkmark on Mac-OS is | a pipe symbol on Windows.
>> 
>> Is there a font I can choose on my design that will work the same on
>> Windows and Mac?
>> 
>> I hope I don't have to put a bunch of "check which platform and do
>> this or that".  I assumed the font characters were the same and I'm
>> kind of surprised.
>> 
> Characters in characters codes below 128 are the same between platforms.
> OSX and Windows use the ASCII character codes from 128-255 differently
> regardless of Font. So, unless you are using LiveCode 7, if you are
> using any character above ASCII 127, you do have to check what platform
> you are on. See the isoToMac and macToIso functions in the LiveCode
> Dictionary as well.
> 
> And yes, it sucks.
> 
> Paul Dupuis
> Researchware
> 
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