When "red" isn't red

[RossG]

I've set the backgroundColor of many fields without any problems but
I have one which refuses to change color.

What's even stranger is that putting the backgroundColor in the message
window gives "red" while the backgroundColor displayed definitely isn't.

What gives?

[bn]

Hi Ross,

is "opaque" set for that field? Check in the Properties Inspector. If not it would be transparent. That could explain it.

Kind regards
Bernd

[RossG]

Thanks bn - that did it.

An unrelated question. I want a column of AveDev numbers to
be aligned but some have one decimal place and others have none.
I think there's a way to "pad" or "fill" but can't find any reference to
such.

Problem half solved - found numberFormat but using "#.0" means
that 8.1 doesn't line up with 10.1 and using "##.0" makes 8.1 into
08.1.

Help appreciated.

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Not sure I understand. Do you want decimal point align?

Craig Newman

[bn]

Hi Ross,

Livecode can not do decimal align, but as of 7 and up it can do right align for tabular data (data tab data tab data return and so on)

try this with a button and a field and change to what you need. If you want columnar data it is a bit more involved. You would place your data tab delimited for columns and return delimited for rows into the field.
But for just 1 column this should work.

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on mouseUp
   -- set up formatting
   set the numberformat to "#.00"
   set the tabStops of field 1 to 70 -- change position here
   
   set the tabAlign of field 1 to "right"
   
   -- fill with random numbers
   repeat 10
      put random (12) - 1 + random(3) / 3 / 10  & cr after tCollect
   end repeat
   put tCollect into field 1
end mouseUp

I will be offline the next couple of days, but maybe this gets you started

Kind regards
Bernd

[Lagi Pittas]

Hi,

I had the same problem - so I rolled my own to have more control

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Function Currency pnValue, pnDigits, pnDecimals
   Local lcFormat, lnReturnVal
   
   -- Fixes the problem that when subtractions  to zero 
   -- gives -0.0 in livecode, this makes it really zero
   if pnValue is zero then 
      put 0 into pnValue
   end if
   
   If (pnDigits Is Empty) Then 
      Put 7 Into pnDigits
   End If
   
   If (pnDecimals Is Empty) Then 
      Put 2 Into pnDecimals
   End If
   
   Put "%" & pnDigits & "." & pnDecimals & "f" Into lcFormat
   
   put Format(lcFormat, pnValue) into lnReturnVal
   return (lnReturnVal)
   
End Currency

The above function assumes a width of 7 (padded left with spaces) and 2 decimal places so if you pass 0 you will get back

^^^0.00

if you call it with Currency(1.2,5,3) you will get back

^1.23

where the caret signs (^) mean space of course

Hope this helps

[RossG]

The problem with the backgoundColor not appearing
correctly was, I think, related to my other problem with
fields after copying.