Delphi Unicode Forms TRectangle TText

Question

I am new to Delphi and the DelphiXE4 editor. I am trying to make a chess guide in shape using the x64 TRectangle for the board (alternative colors). I want to add unicode chess pieces, but in the ObjectInspector properties, when I add unicode, it is displayed literally in the form. How to add Unicode to TText (so that the form displays unicode as chess pieces)? (After I want to add dragndrop to TRectangles / unicode chess - any ideas?).

Rectangle63: TRectangle; Rectangle64: TRectangle; Text1: TText; Text2: TText; 

Here is a screenshot showing the problem:

I am very grateful for the help, thanks

EDIT: Jeroen's answer worked to solve this for me (which I did by copying / pasting the Unicode checkerboard image into the TText text property). I will show a screenshot of exe. Then I want to add DRAGNDROP to these parts .....

EDIT2: (Jeroen font size bug fixed) Unicode black king display fixed - see screenshot:

Answer 1

Unicode Chess Pieces can be shown in any Delphi app if you have a love containing Glyphs for various Unicode CodePoints representing Chess Pieces .

Actually, it doesn't matter which platform or development environment you use as long as they support Unicode, and you have the correct font.

You need:

• a means enter these unicode codes
• a font representing these Unicode codes as characters on the target platform

To start with the latter, for Microsoft Windows these fonts work fine:

• Segoe User Interface
• Tahoma
• Arial Unicode MS

There are two approaches to Microsoft Windows for entering this data:

• if you enable it in the registry: enter the hexadecimal Unicode CodePoint numbers via the Alt codes on the keyboard
• copy / paste them from the application (i.e. Unicode Input: Selection from the screen ), which provides them as text

To copy / paste, I often go to a web page with the correct characters using a web browser that supports Unicode, or search for them using the Character app .

To simplify copying / pasting:

• These are the white parts: ♔♕♖♗♘♙
• These are the black parts: ♚♛♜♝♞♟

An example of a FireMonkey form with all parts in 1 TText in one TTRectangle :

 object Form1: TForm1 Left = 0 Top = 0 Caption = 'Form1' ClientHeight = 480 ClientWidth = 640 FormFactor.Width = 320 FormFactor.Height = 480 FormFactor.Devices = [dkDesktop, dkiPhone, dkiPad] DesignerMobile = False DesignerWidth = 0 DesignerHeight = 0 DesignerDeviceName = '' DesignerOrientation = 0 object Rectangle1: TRectangle Height = 50.000000000000000000 Width = 80.000000000000000000 object Text1: TText Color = claBlack Height = 50.000000000000000000 Text = #9812#9813#9814#9815#9816#9817#9818#9819#9820#9821#9822#9823 Width = 80.000000000000000000 end end end 

Edit

I think you have a problem with the font size in your form file. Create a new question with the text of your form file. Two ways to do this:

• open Notepad, and in Notepad open the .FMX file that comes with your form; copy text to clipboard
• In Delphi, right-click on the form, then select "View as Text", select all the text and copy it to the clipboard, right-click on the text of the form and select "View as Form".

Paste the code http://pastebin.com/ or https://gist.github.com/ then post this link in a new question. After this comment you made, and I will take a look.