Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-25 Thread Sean McBride
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:14:29 -0800, Dave DeLong said: >You can also do: > >NSString * snowflake = @"\u2744"; You can also put the snowflake character itself within the @"" (which I won't attempt here, because either my mail client or the listserve will surely destroy it). Just be sure your sourc

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn > wrote: >> On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Murat Konar wrote: >> >>> Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... >> >> Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why wou

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: > On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Murat Konar wrote: > >> Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... > > Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing.  But why would anyone do a thing like > that!? Does it matter? If you n

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Nov 24, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: >> Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... > > Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why would anyone do a thing like > that!? I wouldn't worry about it in this case. Zapf Dingbats is a system font (in

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Stephen Blinkhorn
On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Murat Konar wrote: Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why would anyone do a thing like that!? Stephen _murat On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: You can also do: N

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Murat Konar
Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Maybe it would be better to "roll your own". _murat On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: > You can also do: > > NSString * snowflake = @"\u2744"; > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Stephen

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Dave DeLong
You can also do: NSString * snowflake = @"\u2744"; Cheers, Dave On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: > > On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > >> >> On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> This seems like a lame question t

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Stephen Blinkhorn
On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applyi

Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: > Hi all, > > This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to > access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it > into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. > > C

NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol

2010-11-24 Thread Stephen Blinkhorn
Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. Charecter details are: Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' Unicode: 2744 UTF8: E2 9