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.
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From: Phil Firsenbaum tacmanphil@mac.com Date: February 18, 2004 10:47:37 AM EST To: squeakland@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@squeakland.org Date: February 18, 2004 11:36:40 AM EST To: "Phil Firsenbaum" tacmanphil@mac.com, squeakland@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@mac.com To: squeakland@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.
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From: "Tim Andrews" timoandrews@yahoo.com Date: February 18, 2004 11:45:46 AM EST To: squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: RE: [Squeakland] Displaying a calculation in a text box
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