Displaying Non-standard characters in a Grid

[ontsjc]

Hi,

I'm trying to display greek characters in a record in a grid. I'm using FoxPro Version 9 SP2 with xp.

Here's the issue. I have a dbf as a recordsource for a grid on a form. This dbf lists a series of default values and their descriptions for some statistical model inputs. I would like to display the proper greek character descriptors for these in the description field. So instead of having the descriptions displayed like this:

Water-filled Porosity (theta W)

I would like it displayed like this:

Water-filled Porosity (?W)

The label is listed in one field in the dbf and the corresponding value another.

Any help would be really appreciated. I've tried just copying the value off the system character map and setting the font in the grid, but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[Mike Lewis]

You can use the Symbol font to display Greek letters, or you can use a font such as Arial, and set the grid's FontCharSet property to 161 (Greek).

But as far as I know, there's no way of mixing Latin and Greek characters in the same cell, as in your example. In VFP, a control can only display one font and one character set at a time.

Mike

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[cbasoz]

You can use a container class in a grid column. Using a container in turn means you can use multiple controls in a grid column. Rest is your imagination to combine label, textbox controls in different fonts.

Cetin Basoz
MS Foxpro MVP, MCP

 

[ontsjc]

Thanks for the help. I'll continue to play around with it.