I would like to know how I can use a special character from the SF Pro font in a Label?
I tried copying and pasting and it doesn’t work. I imagine there must be some option to do this.
Apparently, there is no option to change the Label Text’s Font…
BUT:
You can use emoji (by Copy / Paste).
I have a Textedit document (macOS) with these (I needed them elsewhere) on hand…
SF Pro font will not be available on a users machine, unless they have installed the SF test app. You are best to use one of the libraries to obtain the image and display it in a suitable control.
Hm… I used Right-click “Copy Symbol” in SF-Symbols-App ( square.and.arrow.up).
Then I pasted it into a Button caption:
Works for me.
But the question was for a ☞ Label Caption.®Ω☾☁︎
Here’s in the Label Caption Text:
I gt them from the “Character Viewer” window (macOS)
But it won’t work on a machine that doesn’t have the app installed
2 Likes
It is not installed here…
Has it in the past? If so the fonts will remain. SF Symbols are not really fonts, as standard. They are vector drawings, often with layers etc. The fonts are just a fallback for the app.
There are a number of libraries available. I made one that is an improvement on the Xojo one from the blog. Search the forum. It works with any control that allows an image. My version adds support for segmented controls, that allow more than one image.
does not work for me. ;(
You were given the correct answers by Ian.