Another approach:
- find an open source font that has the character you want, plus all
text looks OK
- include the font (and its license) in your app
- when you start your app, "start using font file tMyFontFile"
- set your table field to use this font
- toggle similar to the way you do now
Phil
On 3/23/18 11:13 PM, Knapp Martin via use-livecode wrote:
Yes I was thinking I could do that and it’s easy enough. Just seems odd that
such a common character can’t be easily typed in Windows.
For Clarence:
set the imageSource of char 1 of line 1 of fld "SomeField” to 1234 —where 1234
is the id of the image you want to use.
Marty
On Mar 23, 2018, at 9:12 PM, Clarence Martin via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Phil, can you provide a sample script?
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To: Knapp Martin via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
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Subject: Re: Checkmark for Mac & Windows
One idea:
- Create or find a checkmark image you like, that looks good within the
textHeight of your lists
- Import it into your app
- make sure each line of text begins with maybe 3 spaces
- use the ID of the checkmark image as the imageSource of char 1 of each line
- let your (now modified) script support the same toggle action it now supports
HTH -
Phil Davis
On 3/23/18 6:22 PM, Knapp Martin via use-livecode wrote:
I generate lists on the fly with the first item of each line set with a
checkmark. After I construct the list under script, I just insert it into a
standard LC table field. The user can then toggle the checkmark of each line
off or on with a click (a script in the field takes care of that).
On Mac it's just a matter of using the checkmark character (option-v) which I
can type right into a script. But on Windows it does not display. I don't want
to rely on a specific font in case the user does not have that installed. Is
there really not an *simple* way to do this so that it works on both Mac and
Windows? I’m redoing a currently Mac-only app so I can release for Windows too
and don’t really want to re-work all this if there’s a simple solution that I’m
missing.
Thanks,
Marty
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