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From: STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Yet another HC bug?
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Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 22:32:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  4 22:32:27 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 00:53:20 EDT
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Does anyone know the status of the Hypercard global property numberFormat? This
property is listed in the HC manual (working draft 3), but doesn't seem to be
working.
     
I have two fields on two different cards, one with the value 3.00 the other
with the value 1.00. On openstack I do a set numberFormat to 00.00. However
when I do "add A to B; put a into message", wherre A is 3.00 and B is 1.00, the
answer is 4, NOT 4.00. What gives? Is this property still supposed to work? Has
it been renames? Is is yet another Hypercard bug?
     
Obviously I can write a clumsy function the formats everything the way I want
it, but it would sure be nice if this property worked as advertised. Anyone got
any info?
     
Thanks,
Scott Storkel
Macintosh Software Development
Rice University
(STORKEL@RICE.BITNET)
     
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