Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-12 Thread Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode
That's the beauty of LiveCode. We have all been taught that things are hard, but LiveCode shows they need not be! I still haven't leaned!!! On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 14:45, Roger Guay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Of course!! I should have thought of this, but was making

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-12 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
Of course!! I should have thought of this, but was making it too hard. Thanks, Herman! And thanks to Monte, Terry and Mark for teaching me something new. Roger > On Feb 11, 2019, at 9:08 PM, hh via use-livecode > wrote: > >> Roger G. wrote: >> Let’s say that I have 3 globals: >> gGlobal1 =

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-11 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Roger G. wrote: > Let’s say that I have 3 globals: > gGlobal1 = 10.1, gGlobal2 = 20.2 and gGlobal3 = 30.3 > I have an expression like gGlobal1*gGlobal2/gGlobal3 > I want to transform this to the expression 10.1*20.2/30.3. As everything in LC is a string: put gGlobal1 &"*"& gGlobal2 &"/"& gGlob

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/11/19 6:58 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Granted, this may be too esoteric for me to understand, but I can’t seem to make this do what I want to do Let’s say that I have 3 globals: gGlobal1 = 10.1, gGlobal2 = 20.2 and gGlobal3 = 30.3 I have an expression like gGlobal1*gGlo

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-11 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
Something like... put merge("[[gGlobal1]]*[[gGlobal2]]/[[gGlobal3]]") into tEquation On 12/2/19, 1:58 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Guay via use-livecode" wrote: Granted, this may be too esoteric for me to understand, but I can’t seem to make this do what I want to do Let

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-11 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
Granted, this may be too esoteric for me to understand, but I can’t seem to make this do what I want to do Let’s say that I have 3 globals: gGlobal1 = 10.1, gGlobal2 = 20.2 and gGlobal3 = 30.3 I have an expression like gGlobal1*gGlobal2/gGlobal3 I want to transform this to the express

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

2019-02-11 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Do you mean as a string? put format(“%f*%f/cos(%f) = %f”, gGlobal1, gGlobal2, gGlobal3, gGlobal1*gGlobal2/cos(gGlobal3)) > On 12 Feb 2019, at 8:43 am, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I can’t seem to come up with a succinct way of doing this: > > I have a mathematical ex