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Re: Decimal point problem?

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Jun 08, 2006
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Larry Miller wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> >   Hello everybody,
> >  
> >   These are movie sizes in bytes.
> >   When use the following code
> >    
> >       setText(MOV_LOCS2[x],info[2])
> >       ?info[2]
> >  The console window prints 77782668 (which is what I want)
> >  But the EditText prints 7.77827e (which I don't want)
> >  Why?
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> 
> I am assuming that you are using Win32Lib.
> The problem is caused by the default format string that setText() uses when
> the second parameter is a number. It uses "%g" as the format string, which
> will
> use an exponent in some cases. Check the documentation for printf(). Win32Lib
> does allow providing a format string, although this does not appear to be
> documented.
> If the parameter is a 2 element sequence, with the first element being a
> sequence,
> it will be used as the format string.
> 
> You would then use:
>  setText(MOV_LOCS2[x],{"%d",info[2]})
> This will always display as an integer.
> 
> I learned this from looking at Win32Lib itself.
> 
> Larry Miller

Thanks Larry,

That solves it. Actually it's going to be

setText(MOV_LOCS2[x],{"%d",info[2]/1000})

for Kbs. But I didn't want to go into that untill I got the basic number right.

Don Cole
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