Field calculations

[Vaughn Clement]

Hi Geoff

It made sense to test on a new blank stack and it worked there, so now I
need to find out why the app I am working on is having errors.

Thank you

Vaughn Clement

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you mean, "I changed the value in the loan percentage field, but nothing
> happened," then check what Jim wrote above about the closeField message.
> Whenever you change the value in a field, as soon as you click someplace
> else the field gets a closefield message, and if the field (or the card the
> field is on, or the stack the card is in) has a script like this:
>
> on closeField
>    answer "You changed something."
> end closeField
>
> then you'll get a dialog. From there you just need to get rid of the answer
> command I used and put what you really want to have happen there.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Vaughn Clement <vclement at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark
> >
> > I tried your script and it does not work? Your script did not designate
> if
> > it is in a card, button or field. I put it the card then the field and it
> > did not work in either of them?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Vaughn Clement
> >
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> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Vaughn-
> > >
> > > Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 10:26:12 AM, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am a database developer so I am new to LiveCode. I used the
> > dictionary
> > > > trying to do the following but the Hypertalk script approach is not
> > > clear.
> > >
> > > Not a problem. Basically you've already written the code by describing
> > > it in pseudocode:
> > >
> > > > I simply want to take one field and use a math operator to say add
> two
> > > > fields together and put the result into a third field.
> > >
> > > > Example: Loan amount + loan fees = Sum amount of loan
> > >
> > > put field "loan amount" + field "loan fees" into field "sum"
> > >
> > > > I might want to add 3 fields together and then subtract a different
> > field
> > > > from the sum of the 3 fields.
> > >
> > > put field 1 + field 2 + field 3 - field 4 into total
> > >
> > > > Or take a loan percentage * the Loan amount to get the amount of
> > interest
> > >
> > > put tLoanPercentage * tLoanAmount into tInterestAmount
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Mark Wieder
> > >  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> > >
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