Hello Devin, Nor did it work on Mac 10.4 and Revolution 2.6. I've spent half a day making images with n+umlaut for textsize 14 and 16 in ordinary colour and in my selection colour. Thanks all the same. Signe Marie
> Signe, > > You can still do it without one of these methods. Let's take your > case as an example. Say you have a field "poundfield" that contains > your text with # for each n-umlaut. Now create another field, say > field "result", and set its textFont to a unicode font as in #1 of my > first post, below. Now create a button with the following script: > > on mouseUp > get fld "poundfld" > replace "#" with "nÃà" in it > set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8") > end mouseUp > > Barring any automatic Mac to PC character substitutions (by Rev or by > your mail client,) this should result in the #'s in your poundfield > being replaced by the character you want. If it doesn't work as > posted here, the three characters in the 'with' part of the replace > statement are ASCII-110 ASCII-204 ASCII-136. So you could generate > them reliably by doing this: > > on mouseUp > get fld "poundfld" > put numToChar(110) & numToChar(204) & numToChar(136) into tChars > replace "#" with tChars in it > set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8") > end mouseUp > > Hope this saves you from a kludge. ;-) > > Devin > > On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:38 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: > > > Hello Devin, > > > > I'm afraid none of the methods can be used. I have lots of texts in > > which I use "#" for the n with umlaut. These will be fed into > > fields on the fly appearing with the correct letter instead of the > > "#". So far I have used images for various text sizes which work > > reasonably well. My problem arose when I wanted to select a line in > > the text, then having to change the colour of the image as well. So > > I think I'll stick to the images, just double the sets of images > > with selection colours as well. Thanks for all the help from you > > and Mark. > > > > Signe Marie Sanne > > > > Den 28. feb. 2007 kl. 18:57 skrev Devin Asay: > >> You *can* do this in Rev. Here's how I did it in OS X (I'm using > >> rev 2.8 in OSX 10.4.8): > >> > >> 1. Create a field and set its textfont to a unicode font: > >> set the textFont of fld "unistuff" to "Verdana,unicode" > >> > >> 2. Enable the Unicode Hex Input method in the International system > >> prefs under the input tab. This will cause the Unicode Hex Input > >> method to appear in the input menu (the one with the little flags > >> on the right side of the menubar.) > >> > >> 3. Position the insert cursor in the field, choose Unicode Hex > >> Input from the input menu, then type : > >> n (then, holding alt/option key down) 0308 > >> > >> the n with umlaut should appear. > >> > >> Sorry, don't know how to do this via direct input in Windows. > >> However, the following should work on either OS: > >> > >> 1. Create a UTF-8 encoded text file that includes the desired > >> character. I used BBedit, making sure I chose a font that > >> supported unicode (Tahoma or Lucida Grande should work) and that > >> the document encoding was set to UTF-8, then created the n-umlaut > >> character just as I described in #3 above. > >> > >> 2. Save the file to disk. > >> > >> 3. Read it in to your rev fld using the uniencode() function. > >> > >> I've created a stack that shows how to do this. > >> > >> go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/testUnicode.rev"; > >> > >> You may also want to download the utf-8 file from http:// > >> revolution.byu.edu/unicode/textUni.ut8. This is the file that the > >> sample stack reads from. > > > Devin Asay > Humanities Technology and Research Support Center > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
