Printing a 'tick' on a form

petesouthwest

Hi

My report has some boxes that need to be 'ticked' depending on the contents of a record. I'm not sure how do to this?

Do I choose a char set that supports a 'tick' and store that, will it then print as a tick?

Thanks for any pointers

Pete

gordk

Hi Pete
you could use a checkbox object and set its checked prop to true or false
or use a memo and the wingding font, use an if expression to decide if the memo shows check or '', this way you can control sizing and frame size thickness

petesouthwest

Hiya

I did as you suggested; made the database store 'Y' or 'N', and then used a richtext object with the expression:

if([query1."ass1edn"]='Y','√','x')

where the '√' was wingdings font that looked like a better tick!

However, when i first run the project and viewed the report I got errors showing a couple of odd charactors and saying about it not being a valid floating point number, and now I just get a report showing the word 'if'. I'm not sure exactly what I did that caused the error to go

I tried [if([query1."ass1edn"]='Y','√','x')] too


I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Thanks for your help
Pete

petesouthwest

Sorry I had a space after the 'if' the expression works now.

except......

Now instead of the the wingdings tick I get a latin u? hmmmmm

gordk

try using the alt+keycode in the string check windows charmap to get correct keycode.

petesouthwest

Hiya

Thanks for the help I also found that if i format the whole expression as wingdings, rather than just the tick that worked too!

Cheers
Pete