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Aryéh Radlé
Aryéh Radlé

Reputation: 1332

Squeak smalltalk: Drawing a morph representing a card suit

I need to draw a morph representing a card suit symbol or a card from a playing cards deck.

I was thinking to use the TextMorph and unicode characters for playing cards or suits, but can't find any example how to build a string from unicode characters and to display it properly in TextMorph.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 208

Answers (1)

Isabelle Newbie
Isabelle Newbie

Reputation: 9378

I'm far from an expert, but this seems to go into the direction you want:

| aceOfDiamonds myTextMorph |
aceOfDiamonds := 16r1F0C1 asCharacter asString.
myTextMorph := TextMorph new newContents: aceOfDiamonds.
myTextMorph openInHand.

Now you can put this (editable) text morph somewhere, and its text will contain the character 🃁, but it will only display as a question mark. You might be able to change to a font that does display this correctly.

We can verify that the text does contain the correct character:

myTextMorph text asArray collect: [:c| c asUnicode].

prints #(127169).

Upvotes: 1

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