ampersand in a button label

[bhnh]

Any suggestions on having an ampersand ("&") in a button label... like an "M&M" button? Many thanks.

[bhnh]

Oops. Wrong example... the problem is with labels. Try this...

rollout test "test" (
label test1 "M&M"
)
createdialog test

Rather than getting "M&M" I'm getting "MM".

[bhnh]

Problem solved. In a label you need to use a double-ampersand (&&), otherwise it's read as a hotkey tag.

[Steve_Curley]

You beat me to it again...

The Ampersand (single) causes the next character to be underlined (though there's a windows "feature" which disables this) and causes the underlined key to become the "hotkey" (shortcut) for that object. 2 Ampersands displays a single one as you found - effectively an escape sequence. Useful on buttons, spinner labels, radio button text etc, not so useful on a Label as a Label doesn't actually do anything 😛

[bhnh]

Thanks, my friend. I learn slowly, but I do learn. :coolgrin: