Android Question (Solved) Trying to add fontawesome character to a button

MarcoRome

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• Mar 21, 2021

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tsteward

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• Mar 21, 2021

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I have manually created the button (not in the designer but by code)

 

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MarcoRome

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• Mar 21, 2021

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Look https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/set-fontawesome-material-icons-typeface-in-code.75955/

 

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TILogistic

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• Mar 21, 2021

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use:

CharSequence / CSBuilder Tutorial

B4A v6.80 adds several new features related to the ability to format rich strings. CharSequence is a native interface in Android SDK. A String is one implementation of CharSequence. There are other implementations of CharSequence that provide more features and allow us to format the string...

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TILogistic

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• Mar 21, 2021

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How to add image to button with text ?

Hello everyone how can i add image with text to the button like this ?

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tsteward

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• Mar 21, 2021

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Solved thank you.
I created a not visible label with a font awesome typeface and copied that to my button.

Cheers

 

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TILogistic

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• Mar 21, 2021

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other font icons:

B4X - Uso de custom fonts icons (SliderMenu)

Estimados, Comparto un breve uso de fonts icons personalizados que es una alternativa a las imágenes como iconos. ADJUNTO EJEMPLO PARA SU REVISIÓN. Si desea crear sus propios icons fonts utilizar una de estas herramientas. http://fontello.com/ https://icomoon.io/app/#/select En este caso...

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Eme Fibonacci

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• Mar 21, 2021

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B4X:

Dim cs As CSBuilder
cs.Initialize
    
Dim cs As CSBuilder
cs.Initialize
cs.Initialize.color(Colors.Blue).Size(28).Typeface(Typeface.FONTAWESOME).Append(Chr(0xf0b0)).Size(22).Append("Filter").PopAll
FilterBtn.Text=cs

 

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MarcoRome

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• Mar 21, 2021

• #10

tsteward said:

Solved thank you.
I created a not visible label with a font awesome typeface and copied that to my button.

Cheers

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Anyway the solution proposed by @oparra ( look code example #9 ) is the best solution

 

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