Drop List Anomaly

[DaveyBoy]

I've just noticed that the '&' character doesn't show up in the droplist, neither Ruby or Green.
The other 'shifted' characters appear to work ok so why not this one? . . any ideas?

Schematic is made with v3.0.6 but it's the same with the alpha:

Droplist Test.fsm

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[deraudrl]

Artifact of which font is used by the droplist prim?

Hang on, I'm vaguely remembering that ampersand is used as a 'shift' character in Windows menus/droplists to denote the keyboard accelerator for a menu item. Does the character after the ampersand display differently (bold/underlined)?

(Sorry, I really need to install FS on this laptop...can't look at your example at the moment.)

[DaveyBoy]

Hi Deraudrl
The character following would normally be a space . . but I just tried using an alpha character and it displayed normally.
Would have thought MS would have chosen a less popular character to denote a special meaning!

[tulamide]

Hi Deraudrl
The character following would normally be a space . . but I just tried using an alpha character and it displayed normally.
Would have thought MS would have chosen a less popular character to denote a special meaning!

Just escape it, like you do with paths as well (at least in Ruby)

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"this && that" ## will display "this & that"
"C:\\" ##will display "C:\"

[DaveyBoy]

Yep that works . . Thanks Tulamide.
I did try escaping with ' \' & '/' but to no avail.

oh . . it works with green too!

Thanks again