Pop Up Menu/List arrows

[rwc.sheehan]

A little nit picky of a detail but how does one add those little arrows on the far right of a pop up menu or list? It's real useful for showing people that there's a dropdown menu there. Sounds way too easy for me to even have to ask this question.

[andygaunt]

All you need is a graphic of an arrow and then place that on top of the field in layout mode.

HTH

[rwc.sheehan]

ya thats all i came up with but i was hoping for an easier way cuz thats kinda a pain for me to go ahead and get an image ready for that...thanks though

[Leb i Sol]

how big (in pixels) and what color u want it?

[Vaughan]

I use FMP-native graphics for the arrows: four or five little black lines inside a square, all grouped together. Fast and easy.

[Leb i Sol]

...make a portal....screnshot it...crop it...many ways to get "little arrows"

without graphis desing background

I wish this was the most painfull part about system dev.

[macmekker]

A fast way to get arrows is to type one letter in a font made out of symbols. It's bit-efficient too.

Example:

On a Mac: letter 5 and 6 in font "Webdings" is arrows up and down.

Tight on top of eachother make nice graphics for a popup menu.

[Leb i Sol]

Webdings is not a TrueType font!

Use fonts with identical names, styles, and metrics on both platforms. If possible, use identical font technologies -- TrueType or Adobe Type Manager, for example -- on all computers that will use the file.

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