Special character

David Squance squance at elkvalley.net
Thu Jul 8 00:52:05 EDT 2004


Yes, thanks.  I'll just have to hope that most users (if there are any)
will have Symbol.  Most potential users will be on PCs, so I want to use
what most will have available.  The fld never has any normal text, so it's
easy to set the textfont to Symbol or whatever and leave it there.

>Well, there isn't one in "normal" fonts (like Arial, etc.). However if
>you're using Symbol or Wingdings, there are checkmarks:
>
>  Symbol: numToChar(214) - which matches the option-V in Mac
>  Wingdings: numToChar(252) - which matches numToChar(18) in Charcoal on a
>Mac
>
>HTH,
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> David Squance
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:59 PM
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: Special character
>>
>>
>> Greetings Group,
>> I was testing a standalone (done on a Mac) on Windows XP
>> earlier today, and discovered that a familiar character
>> (option-v to make a checkmark) was something quite different
>> on Windows.  Can someone give me the ASCII number or whatever
>> I need for a checkmark to appear instead of the sparkler (or
>> whatever it is)? Dave
>>
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