What I usually do for this sort of thing in Windows is I use Office, have word insert a special character, I copy it, and then I do chartonum on the clipboard. It's been a long time since I had to do this though, so things may have changed. The last time I did this I developed in Foxpro! ICK!
Bob On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 08/25/2011 07:35 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: >> I am making an app that will run on the Mac and Windows. One of my edit >> fields will display a value in cents (34¢). I am using a Mac to create my >> app. I used Option + 4 on the Mac to create the ¢ symbol. Here is my >> question: Will windows apps display correctly a label or edit field that >> has a cent symbol in it that was created on a Mac? > > find the ASCII number of the cent sign and do a numToChar and it will > 'survive' cross-platform. >> Charles Szasz >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
