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

[Phil Firsenbaum]

Thanks, John. That's pretty much what I wanted to be able to do for the 
moment.
Phil


On Feb 18, 2004, at 10:58 PM, John Voiklis wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2004, at 12:57 PM, squeakland-request at squeakland.org wrote:
>>
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>>>    1. Displaying a calculation in a text box (Phil Firsenbaum)
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>>>    3. RE: Displaying a calculation in a text box (Tim Andrews)
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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
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>>> Subject: RE: [Squeakland] Displaying a calculation in a text box
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