azayan@bcsaic.UUCP (Ahmed Zayan) (05/02/91)
I'm trying to create a field in devguide(1.1) that takes float and the only option devguide allows text and numeric(integer) fields !! also can i make the sliders min and max values be float!!! Any hints!!! please let me know. Thanks. azayan@atc.boeing.com
doehr@magellan.den.mmc.com (Brett B. Doehr) (05/08/91)
One option is to make the text field alphanumeric. If a value is entered
by the user, you can use the function "atof" to convert it to a double
(not a float, but close enough for us). To output a float to the text field,
use the function "sprintf" to convert it to a string. Not elegant, but works.
--Brett.
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