drawtext with < character

[pastro]

I want to write out |<< using the DrawText (text="|<<" but I get an error when I try since it is not a valid character. Is there an escape sequence that I can use to allow this sequence?

[whurlston]

try: DrawText(text="\|\<\<" or DrawText(text="|\<\<"

Edit: you could use DrawText(text=@"|<<" as well

[pastro]

try: DrawText(text="\|\<\<" or DrawText(text="|\<\<"

Edit: you could use DrawText(text=@"|<<" as well

I had tried the first and it didn't work.
I tried the others and they all cause an illegal character exception.
Have you used those with skinhelper2?

I also tried text="&lt" but that errored too.

[whurlston]

Are you refering to System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.DrawText() or the <DrawText> element in a skin.xml?

If you mean the skin.xml element then your bad character is probably the "(". It should be:

DrawText text="|<<"

I'll play around...

[pastro]

Are you refering to System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.DrawText() or the <DrawText> element in a skin.xml?

If you mean the skin.xml element then your bad character is probably the "(". It should be:

DrawText text="|<<"

I'll play around...

I am referring to the <DrawText> element in a skin.xml file using skinhelper2.
Thanks for looking at this.

[whurlston]

I saw the problem. You missed a semicolon. try text="&lt;"

It worked for me.

[pastro]

Thanks Whurlston, the semicolon did the trick. Appreciate the help.

[whurlston]

No prob.