unicodeLabel not displaying unicode glyph?

[stam]

Hi all,

not sure if this is correct...

if i have a field "test" and a button "test"

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put numToCodePoint("0x1F4BE") into field "test"

produces

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I assumed it would be the same for labels but it seems not...

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set the unicodeLabel of button "test" to numToCodePoint("0x1F4BE")

does nothing... the same seems to apply to any control with a 'label' property, such as graphics...

Am i misunderstanding the dictionary? Is this expected behaviour?
Many thanks
Stam

[richmond62]

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 set the label of button "test" to numToCodePoint(0x1F4BE)

works.

[stam]

ah i see, i'll try that - thanks Richmond

[richmond62]

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I don't know who or what told you to put quotation marks
around the Hexadecimal Unicode Glyph Address.

[stam]

Yep - assigning the label instead of the unicodeLabel did it, thank you Richmond.

What is the point of the unicodeLabel then?
I had initially tried set the unicodeLabel of button "test" to "0x1F4BE", but that didn't work either...

[richmond62]

What is the point of the unicodeLabel then?

Dunno: probably much the same as the tail I had when I was a 5 month embryo
in my mother's womb.
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[stam]

Ahhhhh I missed the deprecation - thanks for pointing that out… I only came across unicodeLabel when googling “how to” and the wiki showed this - but the deprecation wasn’t clear…

Anyway, learn something new every day….

[richmond62]

I don't just know who writes the LiveCode wiki, but is a bit patchy, so, while I use it I then generally check waht it says in the LC Dictionary.