Infinity symbol

Bob

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Sep 5, 2008, 10:09:01 PM9/5/08

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Hi Everyone:

Does anyone know how to display the infinity symbol in a textbox in VB 6.0?
Thanks for your help.

Bob

Norm Cook

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Sep 6, 2008, 8:46:41 AM9/6/08

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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

PeterD

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Sep 6, 2008, 8:49:20 AM9/6/08

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(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?

MikeD

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Sep 6, 2008, 10:08:01 AM9/6/08

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Huh? Chr$(236) is this: ě

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

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Timo Kunze

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Sep 6, 2008, 1:26:05 PM9/6/08

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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.

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Bob

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Sep 6, 2008, 1:58:58 PM9/6/08

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It is possible.

Bob

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Bob

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Sep 6, 2008, 2:00:47 PM9/6/08

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Thanks Mike.

Bob

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PeterD

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Sep 6, 2008, 4:31:46 PM9/6/08

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On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:08:01 -0400, "MikeD" <nob...@nowhere.edu> wrote:

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>Huh? Chr$(236) is this: ě
>

Yes, but 'originally' it was defined as the infinity symbol. Then
someone came along and changed it! <g>

Ryan

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Michael Cole

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Sep 16, 2009, 8:20:18 PM9/16/09

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Not if you post direct to the newsgroup...

>
> Does anyone know how to display the infinity symbol in a textbox in
> VB 6.0?

Change the font to Symbol and use chr$(165)

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MikeD

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What if you want the infinity symbol AND "regular" text in the textbox?

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Ralph

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Sep 17, 2009, 8:42:17 PM9/17/09

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> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to display the infinity symbol in a textbox in
> >> VB 6.0?
> >
> > Change the font to Symbol and use chr$(165)
>
>
> What if you want the infinity symbol AND "regular" text in the textbox?
>

Then you are scr*wed.

You can replace the VB TextBox with one that supports Unicode.

-ralph

Nobody

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Sep 22, 2009, 12:08:38 PM9/22/09

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Next time post directly to the newsgroup. Here is a link:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.vb.general

Dennis Tucker

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Oct 10, 2009, 2:18:36 AM10/10/09

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You would need to either find a font that includes both or make a custom
font of your own.

Dennis

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