can the interface - field - format show special characters like alpha

[lookang]

hihi,

please advise how can i get the symbol alpha to display under the format of a field 2.0.


original result it shown as 


i keyed in the α into the format, before compling looks correct


after compling, a ? appears in place of α


thanks for helping 

[lookang]

attached is my xml.

thanks!

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

It works on my computer. May be your computer did not support such font?
Please check out the attached file.

[lookang]

interesting!!!

i will try at home later.

by the way, can i download your  xml file to see if it works on this pc

thanks

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

File is attached!

[lookang]

i am in a dilemma.

I think the problem is the pc here.

the alpha (in your system) is display as some funny thing (pound sign and a stroke) on this pc.

I will try to sort things out on my end.

thanks for your help

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

It is related to character coding system used in the operating system.
Because I used Chinese operating system, the character code is not unisersal for those special characters(fonts).
Unless it was translated into UTF-8 code, otherwise, you would not be able to see it correctly.
 

[lookang]

i tried using TT fonts , seems to work.

the closest match the alpha i can find is this one.

don't seems to work if i use those O fonts on the interface text field.

any tips ?

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

I do not understand what do you mean by
"using TT fonts, seems to work. ... don't seems to work if i use those O fonts on the interface text field."

[lookang]

i was experiment with true type fonts TT, the pound sign work!!, then i tried others, seems to work


i previously tried those with O , because alpha symbol is from say times news roman. It seems the text field can't recognise the true alpha symbol in java text field.

am i on the right track ?

the pictures may explain what is O(not sure what it means) and TT(true type)

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

I found out how to make it from the web search.
The String value for alpha is "\u03B1"

So if you define s="\u03B1=2.3"; as a variable in the ejs model and asign s to variable for text field
It should display as what you want. Please check out the attached file.
And it should work for all the operating system.

You can find the unicode for other characters from Unicode Character Search

[lookang]

thanks for help.

i understand the idea about making it to strings.

but i think i do it for the plotting panel only.

EJS keep hanging on me when i tried to change the field_old 1.0 to take the string.

2 times already.

appreciate the help, this idea i going to use it on the plotting panel to show the angle with a polygon.

my next design improvement

[lookang]

i did it!!

thanks prof hwang for the idea of using text field , i horizontal box with the field.

in the variable for text field %alphasymbol%

alphasymbol is defined as a string in the declaration as "\u03B1"

thanks for your advice.

BTW

my xml file is getting big ~100 kb, soon i will be unable to upload the xml here.

[lookang]

supporting pictures of what i meant.

for the rest learning from forum.

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

thanks for help.

i understand the idea about making it to strings.

but i think i do it for the plotting panel only.

EJS keep hanging on me when i tried to change the field_old 1.0 to take the string.

2 times already.

appreciate the help, this idea i going to use it on the plotting panel to show the angle with a polygon.

my next design improvement

You should be able to use the same technique for the textString GUI element (to be added into the PlottingPanel).
Check out the EjsConsole, it will provide information about run time error to know why the ejs was hanging.

[lookang]

found another way to draw symbol in EJS thanks to http://www.compadre.org/OSP/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8243&DocID=881 Rocket Car on an Inclined Plane Model
written by Wolfgang Christian, Francisco Esquembre, and Mario Belloni

I look at the source code and realise how they implement:

$\\beta$

by changing beta to gamma , alpha , theta

interesting huh?

for your info

BTW the text $\\beta$
dollarsign\\betadollarsign cannot display

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

It is because this forum will display mathematic equation if you put some TeX syntax between dollar sign.
For example:
$ \alpha+ \beta +\Gamma $
will display

(It is similar to what will be display in EJS when you type equations in TeX format.  Because EJS code was compiled with java , so you need to add two backslashes to translate into one backslashes during the java string processing.)

You can also use _ and ^ to get subscript and superscript effect (and many more TeX mathematic equation features.)

If you want to display dollar sign, please add a backslash in front of dollar sign.
\$

[lookang]

that's cool! will try next time!