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Lear Cale
wordy bugger
Join date: 22 Aug 2007
Posts: 3,569
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11-05-2008 09:04
Due to popular demand, I added sounds to MLPV2 (not released yet). The way it's currently implemented, a sound button looks just like a pose button. So do menu buttons, but in my examples I end every menu name with elipsis ("..."  , thus encouraging a convention that people can follow to help make users' lives simpler. I'd like to follow a similar convention for sounds. Sure, I understand that most builders will put the sounds in separate menus, which is a good idea too. But, if there's a glyph (character graphic) that would help indicate that a button plays a sound, I'd sure like to know about it. Or better yet, what's a good way to see the whole set of characters that I can use in LL file names and in menu buttons? Thanks! [PS: Please don't say "Get a Mac." I know, I know, Macs are better in this regard.] |
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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11-05-2008 09:10
I know that you can use a fair number of characters in llSetTexts that aren't even typable. Is that how you're doing your menus, or are you using llDialog?
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Kelli May
karmakanic
Join date: 7 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,135
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11-05-2008 09:11
Not 100% sure what you are getting at, but it's quite common to see a musical note where something triggers a sound.
In Unicode, the symbols U+266A (♪) and U+266B (♫) are a quaver and a pair of quavers respectively.
(edit: these don't display properly in my browser when I cut & paste them, so not sure what you'll see)
A small graphic of a speaker and 'sound waves' is also used a lot.
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Lear Cale
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Join date: 22 Aug 2007
Posts: 3,569
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11-10-2008 12:21
I ended up using "ascending node", which kinda looks like headphones, in the SL fonts. I considered using the musical note, but it'll be used more for speech (well, "utterances" ) than for music. |
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Void Singer
Int vSelf = Sing(void);
Join date: 24 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,973
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11-10-2008 14:45
I've used
<=
to denote a speaker and sound and also
o/
to resemble a musical note
but generally only in text where the font won't support any useful extended charaters
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Sharcel Bellic
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Join date: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 127
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11-10-2008 22:16
I'm not sure what characters LL lets you use in filenames and buttons, but there is a nice font viewer at http://www.soft-gems.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=33 called "Unicode Font Viewer " that shows the different character blocks in fonts such as "Basic Latin", Arrows, Mathematical Operators, and so on. The fonts that are in my SL folder are Meta Bold, Meta Roman, and ProFontWindows. The "FontSansSerifFallback" value in Debug Settings shows "MSGOTHIC.TTC;gulim.ttc;simhei.ttf;ArialUni.ttf". There is a phone symbol, ✆, but it doesn't look too good to me. Anyone who finds the old charmap near useless because the characters are displayed so small might want to try the Unicode Font Viewer.
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Lear Cale
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Join date: 22 Aug 2007
Posts: 3,569
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11-11-2008 09:06
Thanks, Sharcel  |