[Squeakland] Re: Displaying a calculation in a text box

[Phil Firsenbaum]

I took Andreas' advice and it worked. I created a new variable, which i  
called area and set its value (in a new script) as the product of  
length times width. then I created a detailed watcher for area and,  
sure enough, the area was displayed in the watcher.
With that said, I would also like to be able to do what Tim did...have  
a separate (text) box which displays the value which is what was  
visible in the screen shot that Tim attached. Unfortunately, there was  
no text accompanying Tim's message, so I still don't know what he did.  
Look forward to reading Tim's description.


On Feb 18, 2004, at 12:57 PM, squeakland-request at squeakland.org wrote:

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> From: Phil Firsenbaum <tacmanphil at mac.com>
> Date: February 18, 2004 10:47:37 AM EST
> To: squeakland at squeakland.org
> Subject: [Squeakland] Displaying a calculation in a text box
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>
> I'm working on a project which will generate the area of a given  
> geometric figure. There are a number of approaches I'm considering,  
> however, I'm stuck when it comes to displaying a given calculation.  
> For example, if I use variables for length and width, I want to be  
> able to display the results of lengthXwidth.
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
>
> From: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at squeakland.org>
> Date: February 18, 2004 11:36:40 AM EST
> To: "Phil Firsenbaum" <tacmanphil at mac.com>, <squeakland at squeakland.org>
> Subject: Re: [Squeakland] Displaying a calculation in a text box
>
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> The easiest way to do this is to make a ticking script which computes  
> the
> computed value and then have a readout for this value. For example:
>
> <ticking>
>     foo's result <- foo's length * foo's width
>
> and then the "result" readout will show the resulting value.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Firsenbaum" <tacmanphil at mac.com>
> To: <squeakland at squeakland.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:47 PM
> Subject: [Squeakland] Displaying a calculation in a text box
>
>
>> I'm working on a project which will generate the area of a given  
>> geometric
> figure. There are a number of approaches I'm considering, however, I'm  
> stuck
> when it comes to displaying a given calculation. For example, if I use
> variables for length and width, I want to be able to display the  
> results of
> lengthXwidth.
>> Thanks,
>> Phil
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> From: "Tim Andrews" <timoandrews at yahoo.com>
> Date: February 18, 2004 11:45:46 AM EST
> To: <squeakland at squeakland.org>
> Subject: RE: [Squeakland] Displaying a calculation in a text box
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