SC2Mapster

When I try to display "<" in a dialog item label, it gets interpreted as the start of a tag and the following text (such as newlines) do not get correctly interpreted. I've avoided using this character so far, but I need to use it now. How can I get this character to display correctly?

I made an left arrow "<-" on a button with the following:
<c val="4A4AFF"> <-

I hope that helps...

@Ahli634: Go

I assume "c" means character and the val refers to the Id of the char. Is there a reference somewhere with a full listing of those Ids? Or a reference of all text commands? I can't seem to find that in the wiki...thanks!

EDIT: That's actually not working for me. First, that command as-is colors subsequent text purple. If you put the required "/" in it as in <c val="4A4AFF" />, then it doesn't produce a visible char. ??

<c val="4A4AFF"> is a color code
I just didn't close the tag in the button because that bugged

@Ahli634: Go

OK...unfortunatley it doesn't work for me since I have text that needs to appear after that in the same label. So I either see "<</c>" if I close the tag or "<<n/>" and the next line wrapping up. Isn't there some way to escape "<" or turn off the text parsing in a label?

@jcraigk: Go

Have you tried "\<" ? I'm recalling by preceding any text parsing characters with a backslash, it prevents it from being parsed.

Alternatively, you could try "&lt" which is the html code for displaying the less than symbol, but I don't know if it will work here.

@FuzzYD: Go

Those are what I tried first...neither work. It seems like Blizzard would have some sort of escape sequence and/or entity encoding though...anyone know?

Quote from FuzzYD: Go

Have you tried "\<" ? I'm recalling by preceding any text parsing characters with a backslash, it prevents it from being parsed.

Unfortunately, this is only true for strings within galaxy script, not for text

@jcraigk: Go I looked for some sort of escape character for some time, but never found one.