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VB Forum / Controls / September 2008Infinity symbol
Hi Everyone: Does anyone know how to display the infinity symbol in a textbox in VB 6.0? Thanks for your help. Bob > Hi Everyone: > > Does anyone know how to display the infinity symbol in a textbox in VB > 6.0? Thanks for your help. > > Bob Set the font to Symbol & use Chr$(165) BTW, the Character Map utility is handy for this kind of thing: Start|Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Character Map >Hi Everyone: > >Does anyone know how to display the infinity symbol in a textbox in VB 6.0? >Thanks for your help. > >Bob (Well, at least it is a control problem!) Technically the ASCII symbol for infinity is supposed to be chr$(236). However, remapping of the ASCII character set makes that character go away... Do you need any other characters other than infinity in the text box? >>Hi Everyone: >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > away... Do you need any other characters other than infinity in the > text box? Huh? Chr$(236) is this: ì The description from CharMap is "Latin Small Letter I with Grave". This is also the character I found in all ANSI charts that I looked at. The infinity symbol is a sideways 8. Norm got the character right, but that solution is less than perfect if Bob needs to display "normal" characters as well. I did find the infinity symbol in CharMap, but it's a unicode character so unless a 3rd-party textbox that supports unicode is used, Norm's idea might be the only one available. FYI, when I copied this character from CharMap and pasted it into a TextBox, it just displayed a question mark. Bob, to expand on Norm's idea, you might have to use a RichTextBox so that you can use 2 different fonts. With RichTextBox1 .SelFontName = "Arial" .SelText = "This is the infinity symbol: " .SelFontName = "Symbol" .SelText = Chr$(165) End With  SignatureMike Microsoft MVP Visual Basic MikeD schrieb: > Bob, to expand on Norm's idea, you might have to use a RichTextBox so that > you can use 2 different fonts. Another option would be to use a unicode textbox and a unicode font. However, this would work on Windows NT based systems only. Timo Signaturewww.TimoSoft-Software.de - Unicode controls for VB6 "Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither." "Demokratie ist per Definition unsicher. Ihr Schutz entsteht aus der Überzeugung, dass die demokratischen Kräfte überwiegen und sich – auf demokratischem Wege – durchsetzen." Thanks Mike. Bob >>>Hi Everyone: >>> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > .SelText = Chr$(165) > End With >Huh? Chr$(236) is this: ì Yes, but 'originally' it was defined as the infinity symbol. Then someone came along and changed it! <g> It is possible. Bob >>Hi Everyone: >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > away... Do you need any other characters other than infinity in the > text box? |
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