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RE: setText and integers

• Posted by Derek Parnell <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM> Jul 30, 2002
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I note the reposnse of others. I can add that win32lib has sprintf
"built-in". For example:

   setText(StatBar, {"The value of x =",x})

should work fine.

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Derek.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Moran [mailto:mdmoran at kpmg.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2002 2:36
> To: EUforum
> Subject: setText and integers
> 
> 
> 
> Hiya folks
> 
> I'm quite new to Euphoria (and am lovin' it more and more every day), 
> and am having a bit of a challenge with something.
> 
> As part of my monitoring/debugging process with an Internet 
> client/server set of programs that I'm developing, I want to see key 
> variables at selected points in the execution.
> 
> It's a win32 program (using win32lib and eulibnet includes).
> 
> So here's my challenge.  When I try to show the values of integer 
> variables with setText(), they usually show non-printable 
> characters.  
> This is leading me to believe that setText is meant to only 
> be used with 
> sequences, and that integers will be shown as their ascii 
> equivalents, 
> which isn't what I want.
> 
> For example,
> -- where x=1
> setText ( StatusBar , "The value of x =" &x )
> -- in the StatusBar, a block (which I'm guessing is ascii(1)) shows 
> after the "=" sign.
> 
> To get around this, I've been using 'printf', but I don't 
> want these in 
> a separate console window.  Plus I'll be showing some key 
> variables to 
> users during execution as well (such as number of connected clients, 
> etc.), so it'd be nice to know how to use setText with 
> integer variables 
> (and atoms too, I suppose).
> 
> Any help for this neophyte?
> 
> Thanks folks.
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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