I'm sure this will start some historical flame war, but why use
numberFormat (an archaic leftover from HyperCard) or invest the time to
write your own?
LiveCode has a great formatting function built in - format(baseString [,
valuesList])
put format("%.2f",1.00+1) into tpoextprice -- does what you would get
with numberFormat as "0.00" but in all circumstances
See http://livecode.com/resources/api/#livecode_script/format
Strike that, the entry on the web site has the formatting of the
baseString options all messed up. Check the Dictionary on your copy of
LiveCode instead.
On 2/15/2018 12:59 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> On second thot, I think I will just use my own number formatting function.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 09:54 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Klaus and Mike indeed you are correct. I keep making the mistake of
>> reading the dictionary. ;-P I don't see anything there that refers to only
>> working with containers, only that the results of the calculation is
>> affected.
>>
>> But it's more complex than even that. Given:
>>
>> set the numberFormat to "0.00"
>> put 0 into textprice
>> put textprice
>>
>> displays 0, not 0.00. So a calculation *must* be performed on a variable
>> *and* the variable put into a container in order for this to take effect.
>> What I am going to do instead to initialize a numberic variable is to add 0
>> to a variable.
>>
>> The second part I am sketchy on tho. I think the script editor variable
>> watcher is itself a livecode stack with livecode fields, so it ought to
>> reflect the results of numberFormat, however numberFormat applies only to
>> the local script it is set in, so how that could be accomplished I do not
>> know.
>>
>> I think I will put in a feature request to update the dictionary to reflect
>> this.
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 09:34 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode
>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>>> Am 15.02.2018 um 18:20 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>
>>>> I have this in a script:
>>>>
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>> set the numberFormat to "0.00"
>>>> put 1.00+1 into tpoextprice
>>>> breakpoint
>>> put tpoextprice
>>>
>>>> end mouseUp
>>>> At this point tpoextprice is 2. Not mind you, 2.00, just 2.
>>> Adding this, will put 2.00 into the message box. LC 8.1.9, Mac.
>>> So maybe the debugger does just not display the correct number?
>>>
>>>> Either I am missing something (again) or else numberFormat is broken.
>>>>
>>>> Bob S
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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