Currency display in a field

[petero]

How do you get a field to display its contents in currency format (i.e. with $ sign and commas)?

Thank you for your help.

Peter

[Mark Smith]

Peter, there isn't a built in property of fields to do this.

You have the choice of a handler in the field script, or a function in your stack or a library.

The first might be, in the field's script:

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on setCurrencyText pAmount
  put "$" & format("%1.2f", pAmount) into me
end setCurrencyText

so then, instead of

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put 20.4 into fld "someField"

you could

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send "setCurrencyText 20.4" to fld "someField"

Or, (and I prefer this idea) have a function like the one above that you call when putting a number into the field:

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put makeCurrency(20.4) into fld "someField"

Hope this helps,

Mark