Hi Michael,
Ok, I'll try to put in that missing step.
Thank you for taking a look at the code,
and making your suggestion for the correction.
Rick
On Jan 15, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Michael Kann wrote:
> Rick,
>
> A little more explanation. The numToChar function takes an integer. In your
> case if you feed the function the integer 119 then it spits out "w" -- which
> is what you want. At the end of your script you ended up with "01110111",
> which is the way we "spell" the binary number 119 -- using ones and zeroes.
> But the numToChar function only works on integers, not the ones and zeroes.
> So you need one more conversion step to get back to the integer before you
> use the numToChar function.
>
> It looks like if you feed the numToChar nonsense, you get nonsense back
> without any warning.
>
> Mike
>
>
> on mouseUp
> put numToChar("01110111") into x
> put numToChar(119) into y
> put x && y into fld 1
> end mouseUp
>
> fld 1 will then contain "_ w"
>
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