Hint message icons
As well as showing basic strings, scripts can use a variety of icons alongside
hint messages. This can be done by placing ^c at the start of the string
passed to ui.setHintMsg, where c is a character from the
table below.
| Character | Icon |
|---|---|
b |
Record |
c |
Yellow smiling face |
d |
Mouse right click |
e |
Red sad face |
f |
Orange left-facing triangle |
g |
Fast-forward icon |
h |
Exclamation point in a red circle |
i |
Clock |
j |
Rewind icon |
k |
Link icon |
l |
MIDI keyboard |
m |
F1 (help) key icon |
n |
Image-Line icon |
r |
Plugin icon |
s |
File icon |
t |
Eye |
u |
Tempo tap icon |
v |
Left-facing triangle |
w |
Right-facing triangle |
x |
Pencil |
y |
Slice tool |
z |
Brush tool |
For example, to display a tempo tap message with a relevant icon, the following code could be used:
Note that these icon codes are not returned by
ui.getHintMsg().