Using fontawesome in a button

[quailcreek]

Hi,
In LC 8 they had a pushbutton that allowed to use fontawesome to display a font icon in the button. Now that the pushbutton is not going to be supported, how do we do this with a regular button? I can make a button using tmControl2 by dragging from the ICON Library but I'd like to accomplish this from within LC.

[jacque]

Set the textfont of the button to font awesome and its label to the character that is the icon you want.

[quailcreek]

Thanks Jacqueline,
I get that part. How do I determine the char to set the label? I have installed fontawesome on my Mac and I can copy/paste from the font book to the label. Is that the only way?

[jacque]

I have installed fontawesome on my Mac and I can copy/paste from the font book to the label. Is that the only way?

That's how I usually do it. It's easier than memorizing the character codes. Sometimes I set up the character in a LiveCode field and take a snapshot of it, and use that as the icon. That way I don't have to include the font with my app. But if you need resizeable icons, using the font is better.

[quailcreek]

Thanks again, Jacqueline. Wasn't sure if there was another way to do it. Copy/paste works fine.

[SparkOut]

There are fontawesome crib sheets that you can use to look up, and info on how to use: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... 0&p=128259

[quailcreek]

Thanks, Sparkout.
When I did a search for fontawesome I looked in the iOS Development forum. Didn't think to look in the beginners forum. My bad.