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[RESOLVED]Up and down Carets in GUICtrlCreateButton

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I'm trying to make an up and down arrow like this " ^ ", but since there is no down caret on the keyboard I'm resorting to trying to figure out ways to get that Caret upside down.

Has anyone tried doing this for a button so that it looks like an up and down array? This button will be used for sorting.

I've tried looking through Unicode to see if I could do it and no luck :/. Any help would be much appreciated.

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JonBMN,

WebDings (which I believe is standard on all Windows OSes) has suitable characters as 0x35/6 ("5" and "6"). You can use them like this (taken from one of my scripts): :)

Global $cDetails_Show_Button = GUICtrlCreateButton("5", 115, 45, 35, 20)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 10, 400, 0, "Webdings") ; "5" = ^, "6" = v

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GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
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GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
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NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
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You might also want to have a look at the Marlett font which also comes with windows. It contains many of the arrows and symbols used on standard windows dialogs.

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I've tried using your solution @Melba23, but I could not get it to work. I seem to just be getting 5 instead of the symbol.

I get the same from the Marlett font @Bowmore.

I must be doing something wrong. So, here is an example of what I'm doing..

GUICtrlSetFont($ButtonAZ, -1, 10, 600, -1, "Webdings")
$ButtonAZ = GUICtrlCreateButton("5", 250, 5)
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JonBMN,

Create the button before you set the font as I did in my code. ;)

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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JonBMN,

You have the syntax wrong - you use either the button ControlID or the "-1" shorthand for "last control created", but not both Try this: ;)

GUICtrlSetFont($ButtonAZ, 10, 600, -1, "Webdings")

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Public_Domain.png.2d871819fcb9957cf44f4514551a2935.png Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind

Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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