Numeric formatting of controls

From: [at]} <skulski{>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:46:48 -0400 (EDT)

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Hi:

  is there a simple way to format numerical strings displayed
in Text Fields? The default formatting of REAL numbers is hardly
useful in the current implementation of Text Field. For example,
displaying a number -5.995171696219752E-8 makes little sense
in GUI. I would rather want to format this to something like
 -5.995E-8. Moreover, would be useful to perform such formatting
on the fly, without explosion of interactor variables in the code,
whose only purpose would be to reformat the variables to be shown
in the GUI.

To this end I looked at the definition of Dialog, hoping to use
either guards or notifiers to perform on-the-fly formatting.
To my dismay the definition of Dialog.Par does not allow for this,
because the internal text field is not exported. The label is exported,
and it can be changed on the fly, but the text field itself is not.

I wonder if there is a way to reformat the Text Field from the
default formatting to something more sensible.

Thank you in advance for any hints,
Wojtek

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