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: Murat Konar <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:56:58 -0800
Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Maybe it would be better to "roll your own".
_murat
On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:
> 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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