GD&T Symbols in the Windows Client

osimren

Hi,
I have a requirement to display GD&T symbols in the windows client of NAV 2013 R2 (as part of a quality control system).
GD&T is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_ ... olerancing

It sounds easy since it is just a text string (like [|,**&|A|B|C]) displayed with a special font.
But as far as I understand it you can’t define a font for a field in the windows client.

Is there an easy way to do this?

My plan right now is to have a field where a user can enter the text string and a BLOB field with a bitmap next to it.
When the text string is entered NAV will draw a bitmap (using System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawString) with the GD&T font and stream it into the BLOB field to be displayed to the user.

But this sounds like a complicated solution to a simple problem, so I just want to be sure I don’t miss a simpler way of doing it.

Thanks!

osimren

Since the replies have been a bit limited (none ), I went ahead and did my plan b which seems to have worked. \:D/
The result is in the attached image and the code is below (in case anyone run into the same thing).

DrawingBitmap := DrawingBitmap.Bitmap(300, 30);   // Bitmap size
DrawingGraphics := DrawingGraphics.FromImage(DrawingBitmap);
DrawingGraphics.TextRenderingHint := DrawingTextRenderingHint.AntiAlias;
DrawingFont := DrawingFont.Font('Gd&t#2', 20);    // Font and font size
DrawingSolidBrush := DrawingSolidBrush.SolidBrush(DrawingColor.Black);
DrawingGraphics.DrawString("GDT Text", DrawingFont, DrawingSolidBrush, 0, 0, DrawingStringFormat);
"GDT Symbol".CREATEINSTREAM(DrawingInStream);
DrawingBitmap.Save(DrawingInStream, DrawingImageFormat.Png);

Here are more details:
http://www.olofsimren.com/display-symbo ... v-2013-r2/