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(@rtruss)
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I saw in one of your samples that you had icons in the ui using this format 

text:\fdti\o\fArial

I could not find in the readme how that works. I changed the fArial to fWebdings but got garbled icons over my 'header'
Could you elaborate a bit on how that all works and what font sets may be supported?  I like the look of the tool when using it as its really a more modern look then.
 
Thanks, Roger.

   
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Posted by: @rtruss

I saw in one of your samples that you had icons in the ui using this format 

text:\fdti\o\fArial

I could not find in the readme how that works. I changed the fArial to fWebdings but got garbled icons over my 'header'
Could you elaborate a bit on how that all works and what font sets may be supported?  I like the look of the tool when using it as its really a more modern look then.
 
Thanks, Roger.

I've been waiting for someone to ask that question 🙂

the \f part sets a font name where \fdti\ is an internal dti font.  everything else is a windows installed font. To use webdings you would put \fwebdings\ followed by the required character.  Note the font declaration is enclosed in backslashes.  To figure out the font character you want to use fire up the windows charmap tool (assuming your eyesight is still good enough to see things that small!)

\fwebdings\É    should give you a modem (i think is what that is) 

All following characters are interpreted in the same font until you declare a new font.

 

 


   
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Excellent, thanks Glenn, I will play more..


   
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OK, so this icon stuff is fun.  Thanks for the info.  I also found this little item to better view fonts.  I am sure there are more but boy its WAY better than the old character map tool in windows:

Character Map UWP - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrdxf41?hl=en-US&gl=US


   
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