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

[John Voiklis]

Attached, Phil, is a quick a dirty sample of how to set the text of a text
box with a script-generated value. Notice that I set the numericValue of
the text box and not its characters. I hope this is what you were asking
about and that my sample proves helpful. Tired now...going to bed.

Best,

John

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Phil Firsenbaum wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
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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
> >
> >
> > 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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