ASCII help

[DrewDog_21]

I am trying right now to return the character equivalent of ASCII values in Windows. Problem is that some of them are different, e.g. Ñ in VB is 209 and in Windows is 165. how can I 1) return the Windows character for an ASCII code or 2) assign the result of SendKeys to a variable, since in Notepad pressing Alt-165 will return Ñ?

thanks

Andrew

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

try alt+0209
Ñ
tada!

[DrewDog_21]

Cool. But how can I assign that into a variable? I need to print all of the Windows Unicode characters from Ascii values 1 through 256 into an MSFlexGrid (or some other data viewer), and the code

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim Text as String

Text = SendKeys("Alt(0209)")

End Sub

gives a compile error - "Expected function or variable"
gives the error

Here is the problem, more simply put: I need to display the Windows Unicode Characters for 1 through 256. Since they are different from VB, how can I do this?


[Edited by DrewDog_21 on 07-28-2000 at 04:55 PM]

[eiSecure]

Here's an Idea:
You can just cut&paste the "odd" characters into list boxes in your project, and set the list box visibility to "False", and once they're needed, you can just transfer whats inside them to your text boxes by entering:

text1.caption=label1.caption

[DrewDog_21]

Maybe I am not being 100% clear about what I need to do, since I have written these in extreme haste

For i = 1 to 256

'pass in the value of i and return the Unicode character.
 'this is where I am stuck because Chr(i) returns returns 
'the VB character, and VB uses the ANSI character set and 
'not Unicode 

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[Edited by DrewDog_21 on 07-28-2000 at 05:29 PM]