Subject: Re: Don't amputate numberformat

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Mon Apr 24 15:22:39 EDT 2017


Think of the laptops.  Do it for them.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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