[solved] ☹

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• sebastiaan

  September 2013 edited 2:39PM

  Hi Jona,

  It appears that the smiley faces are not part of the Droid fonts that OpenSesame uses by default. But it should work fine if you switch to another font, such as Arial, which does contain these characters (through 'other' in the font selection box)

  Does that help?

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• Jona

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  No, I had already tried a bunch of fonts, including Arial. It works in the Debug Window by the way.

  BTW, here's my canvas:

  frowny = u"\u2639"
  #rating_canvas.text("☹")
  rating_canvas.text(frowny)
  

  Thanks Sebastiaan!

  Edit, to clarify: neither the line that's commented out nor the other one work, with Arial or any other font I tried.
• sebastiaan

  September 2013 edited 2:39PM

  The frowney face appears to be a pretty rare character. I initially tried it with the smiley face (u264A) which is part of Arial, but the frowney face is indeed not. The only font that I can find that contains the frowney is 'Courier New'. For me, this script shows a frowney face:

  from openexp.canvas import canvas
  c = canvas(exp)
  c.set_font(style='Courier New')
  c.text(u'smiley: \u263A frowney: \u2639')
  c.show()
  

  PS. like most modern toolkits, the OpenSesame GUI uses a fancy font-matching algorithm that picks missing characters from alternative fonts. That's why a character often appears fine in the GUI, but turns out to be missing when you actually run the experiment.

  
  
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• Jona

  September 2013 edited 2:39PM

  Funny, using Courier New (Mac OS 10.7), I only get the smiling smiley, not the frowney (he's still a box). But since it's a font issue, I'll have to deal with it myself. Thank you!