Subject: Re: Don't amputate numberformat

[Richard Gaskin]

Mike Kerner wrote:

 > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

 >> 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.
 >>
 > It's only daunting because of the overhead of creating the widget.

Well, that and several thousand lines of very tricky code.

If you're up for translating all that from C++ to LC Builder that would 
be cool.

But if it may take longer than an idle afternoon, perhaps a backscript 
might do. :)

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