the Euro symbol has been available in Director since Director 7.02 (when it was included into the System OS fonts) it's accessed by typing on a mac: shift-option 2 on a win: type some alt combo (= charToNum 219)
In d7/d8/d8.5 mac, when I put member().html of a #text member with this char, I get it described as '¤' within the html. hth -Buzz At 9:51 AM -0500 5/30/02, Howdy-Tzi wrote: >At 15:41 +0200 05/30/2002, Chris Aernoudt wrote: > >>Anyone ever tried to type a euro symbol into a text field and swapping the >>text of the member with the html? >>I get Ä which is supposed to be uppercase A umlaut, instead of €. >>€ is not recognised as valid html. >> >>When was the last time they updated this stuff? > >The HTML #text member routines were introduced with Dir7. However I >get the feeling the HTML parser itself is based on W3C 1 or 2, which >puts it ferociously out of date. > >>Anyone know of a full list of supported html stuff? > >I don't know of such a resource, but if you can't get it to work in >NS2, for instance, it almost surely will not work in Director. And, >of course, #text members can't handle graphics. > >-- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
