+1 I commented awhaaay back in Revolution 2 times how neat it would be to have a numberFormat property for fields, so that the stored value was one thing (a number) and the display value was another. Otherwise reading data into and out of databases requires a de-format and re-format function for dates, times and numbers.
I already have a formatDate() and formatTime() function. Why you ask? Because there are date and time formats that LC does not accomodate, such as sql datetime. But to be able to assign a format to a field, especially a datagrid column would save a lot of time and work. Bob S On Jul 28, 2015, at 06:59 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: It's of course very useful that we have a community able and willing to share handler for things like number formatting. But stepping back to look at the big picture, I find myself wondering: Why is that even necessary? Why isn't that just a field property, e.g. "the displayFormat"? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
