Formating numbers in fields

[Björnke von Gierke]

no, you cannot set the numberformat of a field. what you can do is (for example) this:

on KeyUp --after someone entered something into the field
   set the numberformat to "#.00"
   put the selectedChunk of me into theTempSelection --retain selection
   add 0 to me --force numberformat
   select char (word 2 of theTempSelection) to (word 4 of theTempSelection) of me
end KeyUp

Note that this is a rather evil approach, mostly because there's no way to enter the right hand parts without using arrow navigation or mouse selection. Also, the code throws an error when a point or any non-number char is entered. Maybe it's more advantageous to use two fields, or only check on exitField and closeField, because there it's not as intrusive to interpret and remove wrong chars or double dots etc. but that of course depends on what you've actually planned.

Finally, these messages might also need to be handled:

on pasteKey
on cutKey
on closeField

On 11 Mar 2010, at 17:16, Andrew Kluthe wrote:

> 
> I tried setting that property and I must not know how to use it properly
> because I could not figure it or the documentation on it out.
> 
> Do I set this as a property of the field and it handles all that for me? or?
> 
>> From the dictionary:
> 
> Examples: 
> set the numberFormat to "#.00" -- dollar format
> set the numberFormat of scrollbar "Progress" to "0.0"
> 
> 
> so "set the numberFormat of fld "fLeasePaymentDollars tp "#.##"" doesn't
> work. How do I use this thing?
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