How to display extended ascii chars in dialog?

[xyler]

I want to display extended ascii characters (ohm symbol in particular) throughout my dialog box and app. MSDN says to use octal or hex notation of the ASCII character code. So, I tried...

AfxMessageBox("ohm hex: \xEA , ohm octal: \352"

But, this seems to display characters from the ANSI table.
ie. Displays char code 156 from ANSI. 156dec = 352oct.

Can someone tell me how I would display the Ohm symbol??

 

[srfink]

Hi,
You could create a font with CreateFont, using the GREEK_CHARSET, and then use SetFont. For example, to display the ohm symbol in an edit control in a dialog:

m_pFont = new CFont;
m_pFont->CreateFont(15, 7, 0, 0, 400, FALSE, FALSE, 0,
GREEK_CHARSET, OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY,
VARIABLE_PITCH | FF_MODERN, "Arial"
CEdit* pEdit = (CEdit*) GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1);
char str[2];
str[0] = '\xBF'; //The code in the Greek char set for Ohm
str[1] = 0;
pEdit->SetFont(m_pFont);
pEdit->SetWindowText(str);
(the m_pFont ptr is deleted later)

Hope this helps

 

[xyler]

With the example above, I still get chars from the ANSI table. But, it seems to work with some changes - using SYMBOL_CHARSET and "Symbol" font. Looking up Symbol font in Charmap, the ohm symbol is '\x57'.


m_pFont->CreateFont(15, 7, 0, 0, 400, FALSE, FALSE, 0,
SYMBOL_CHARSET,
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY,
VARIABLE_PITCH | FF_MODERN, "Symbol"


Thanks for that!

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi everyone,
The application I'm working on displays charts using the MSChart ActiveX.
Do you know of a way I could let the user print a chart to the printer?
(I know how to draw to the printer, I just don't know how to get the MSChart to draw itself there, rather then on screen.)

Thanks everyone
Gelbart