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Is it possible to display unicode in popup menu?

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2008-10-16 20:33:36
darrenmia
Registered: Oct 15 2008
Posts: 4
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Hi,

I can display unicode character "\u30D7" ( a Japanese character ) in customs dialog, alert boxes but when I try to apply this into a popupMenu it's showing a dot.

How do I display a double byte character in a popup menu? I tried using app.popUpMenu as well as App.PopUpMenuEX and it doen't work.

If double byte character could not be displayed in a popup menu, is it possible to display an image in the popupMenu? i.e the way display in dialog boxes using image text stream.

brgds,
Darren

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2008-10-17 01:28:40
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maxwyss
Registered: Jul 25 2006
Posts: 255
popup menus use fonts from the operating system. It is therefore well possible that the standard system font does not know about your Kanji character.

You might play around a little bit with your system's settings, such as switching it to Japanese UI. The idea is to make the system use a font which knows about the character you did set.

Images can not be used for popup menus (for the reason mentioned above).

I assume that you use popup menus because of their hierarchical menu feature (which is why I prefer popup menus to drop down menus (aka combo boxes)).

However, if persuading the operating system into using a font which knows about your characters is not practicable, you might look at combo boxes (where the font is specified in Acrobat, and therefore should work). Or you try to emulate a popup menu using sets of fields (which would involve some JavaScripting...).

Hope this can help.

Max.
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