[AccessD] OT: Icons

Hey Andy

I have found changing the font gives me most of what I need re icons

For example - you require an Ambulance Icon?
 
Put a lowercase p or lower case h as the caption for a button - Change the size
to 30 and make the font Webdings - Voila - 2 x Ambulances

Change the font to red and away you go. :-)

These fonts MT Extra, marlett, Webdings, MS Outlook, Windings 1 and 2 and 3 as
well as many others are character based fonts and have a wealth of cool ready to
use common icons - now if Acces just let us split the font on the caption we
could have captions and pictures on each button

For EG - You may see from time to time the little road or river going over a
hill with a pine tree and text similar to... 

"Please consider the environment before prining this email"

That is just an Upper Case P in webdings font and the colour green

To See it - Paste the following 6 lines into notepad and save the results to the
desktop with the extension ".HTM" (EG test.htm) and then double click it

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<FONT color=green size=5 face=Webdings>
     P 
</FONT>
<FONT color=green size=1 face=Tahoma>
     Please consider the environment before printing this email. 
</FONT>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Good luck

DD

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:22 AM
To: Dba
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Icons


Hi all
Does anyone have a source for good icons/images? Serious, neat ones not
cartoon-y. I alwsys run into this problem when the customer asks for a
picture on a screen. I've got DIB Pictures but that's limited to
Windows-related stuff, so when I need a car, an ambulance, a fire, etc
I'm stuffed. And when I Google "free icons" I get a million links,
mostly to sites which want to charge you in the end. Any good pointers?
--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 


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