>>>>I have an old report that shows a checked box (if a certain field has value True). When I open this report in the VFP Report Designer, the textbox (used for this control) has expression:
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>>>>iif( Passed, "p", "")
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>>>>The value of "p" above is actually some high or low ASCII character but it kind of looks like "p" or "b". What CHR() should I replace it with to make sure that I can edit it later?
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>>>>TIA
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>>>Some fonts have checkboxes, for instance "Wingdings 2" where chr(81) is crossed, chr(82) is checked and chr(163) is unchecked.
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>>I think at the time when I was creating the report I wanted this check box to be font-independent. And I used chr(254).
>>Thank you.
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>Well, unfortunately it's not. With Courier New it's something like a b. You can try @1,1 say Chr(254) font "courier new"
I think you are right. Even when I replace the "p" with CHR(254), I see this characters in the report, at run time.
How do I make the Check Box symbol appear in the report instead of the character "p"?
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