[AccessD] OT: Icons

Doesn't work in most browsers - only in IE.

Webdings are good for putting on an Access Form or Report, but don't do it in HTML. 

Here's a good explanation of why not:

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html

<quote>
...
For Windows, browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape 4 that are not standards-
compliant allow non-Unicode fonts such as Wingdings to be specified in HTML or CSS, to 
enable additional special characters to be displayed. Specifying Wingdings font is contrary 
to the published specifications, has never been a documented feature of HTML, is not 
reliable, and should not be done. Wingdings is not available on all computers, and so the 
intended characters may not appear on computers running non-Microsoft operating systems 
such as Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10 or Linux. The intended characters are also unlikely to 
appear when using a standards-compliant browser such as Firefox, Netscape 6+, Opera 6+, 
Safari 3+ or SeaMonkey (formerly Mozilla). The same problems are found with the 
Webdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 fonts - they should not be used in Web pages.
...
</quote>

-- 
Stuart


On 7 Sep 2009 at 14:43, Darren - Active Billing wrote:

> 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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