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Dear Rene and Robert:
I somehow missed both the original message from Robert as well as the
fact that "level" can be used to control the formatting of numerical
strings. Contrary to what Rene said, this feature is documented in
the chapter on Forms. I never read this chapter till the end because
it is written like a tutorial and I never had patience to read it all.
The relevant information is listed about 2/3 into the tutorial.
level > 0: exponential format (scientific) with at least level digits in
the exponent.
level = 0: fixpoint or floatingpoint format, depending on x.
level < 0: fixpoint format with -level digits after the decimal point.
This is exactly what was needed to make my forms look tidy.
Thank you both for the info.
Wojtek
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Prof. Rene J. Dorta Franceschi wrote:
> Campbell, Robert D (UK Edinburgh) escritos:
>
> >>> Hi:
> >>>
> >>> is there a simple way to format numerical strings displayed
> >>> in Text Fields?
> >
> > Yes - put in a negative 'Level' for fixed point, a positive level
> > for scientific notation..
> >
>
> level = -1: That was great! (as all undocumented features used to be!).
> Cheers, René Dorta. Venezuela.
>
>
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