Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
- Subject: Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
- From: Dave DeLong <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:14:29 -0800
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 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 9D 84
>>>
>>> What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously?
>>
>> Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk)
>>
>> unichar snowflake = 0x2744;
>> NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:&snowflake length:1UL];
>
> Those are the two lines I needed, thanks Nick. This has nothing to do with Christmas either!
>
> Stephen
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