Subject: Re: Don't amputate numberformat

[Mike Kerner]

It's only daunting because of the overhead of creating the widget.  I think
that the overhead of creating LC and maintaining LC is well worth it
compared to the cognitive load that I face dealing with other tools.
Laptops also rejoice that they do not have to endure having their screens
ripped from their bases when I am trying to debug a pointer referencing
issue, so DO IT FOR THE LAPTOPS!

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Mike Kerner wrote:
>
> > Well, that would be a nice thing to have in a field widget, but I run
> > into formatting issues with databases, as well, especially when
> > sorting.
>
> The DB issue may be best handled through an accessor library.  Many other
> error-correction and conveniences could be added to that as well.
>
> But with fields, a formatting enhancement need not be a Widget per se.
> That would require first reproducing the entire field object, and then
> adding the small bits we're discussing here.  Daunting.
>
> Simpler would be a behavior script, with a custom properties called
> something like "rawText" and "displayText", with formatting determined by
> "displayFormat", e.g.:
>
> set the displayFormat of fld 1 to "$0.00"
> set the rawText of fld 1 to 5 -- shows "$5.00"
> get the displayText of fld 1 -- returns "$5.00"
> get the rawText of fld 1 -- return "5"
>
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