Not many people know this.

[Tom Glod]

u r right...did not know this ...cool trick..... ..so if i want a
fontawesome icon at the beginning of a paragraph..... i can do that and not
use imagesource.

great tip.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> *Mucking around further, I discovered one can set the textFont for **
> **a char that does NOT exist, this is extremely useful insofar as **
> **one does not have to populate 100s of buttons with "corrective" code:**
> **
> **on mouseUp**
> **   put "x" after fld "ff"**
> **   put the number of chars in fld "ff" into NF**
> **   set the textFont of char NF of fld "ff" to "MonsterMash"**
> **set the textFont of char (NF+1) of fld "ff" to "BoringGuff"**
> **end mouseUp*
> *
> **Richmond.*
>
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