Thanks for reminding me of that Devin. I had just started using characters from symbol fonts as button labels and turning them into images removes my last concern about doing that. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Michael Kristensen wrote: > > > Hi there > > > > Icons can be quite space-saving and also pleasing to the eye. > > > > But somtimes the hazzle of making the icon in a paint app and import it > into Livecode and keep it in a hidden place is to much. > > > > On a Mac there is a palette calle "Keyboard". > > > > It can show the thousands of chars/symbols in a Unicode font. > > > > Im sure you can find a symbol there that suits you. > > > > The trick is to add the char to the label of the button, not the name. > > > > Scale the char/icon by ajusting the textsize and color it as you please. > > Thanks for a nice tip, Michael. It is possible to take this one step > further, to address the possibility that the end user of your stack does not > have the same fonts installed on their system as you do. You can easily turn > any character from any font into an image without leaving LiveCode. Simply > create the character in a field, make it transparent and turn off its > border. Then issue the command: > > import snapshot from field "whereTheSymbolIs" > > This creates an image object on the card that looks exactly like the field, > no third party image editor needed! > > Regards, > > Devin > > > Devin Asay > Humanities Technology and Research Support Center > Brigham Young University > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
