Re: Left justify numeric field

Ahh, commas were what I was missing... thanks for the clarification.

As for checkboxes & radio buttons -- not sure what that has to do with this thread, but... you may be interested to try our product, Profound UI, which makes it really easy to do this and much, much more, if that's something you're looking for...
http://profoundui.com or http://www.profoundlogic.com

On 8/13/2013 10:53 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

D wString s 30 varying
nField = -123456.78;
wString = 'You owe: ' + %editc(nField: 'N');
dsply wString;
wString = 'You owe: ' + %char(nField);

Here are the results of the above code:
DSPLY You owe: -123,456.78
DSPLY You owe: -123456.78

I like commas, and I also like %editw() for special cases. I believe we
are limited with what we can provide users but I do want to at least
give em what we got, especially when it is so easy. Besides, if this
really was about a money-owed figure, I would probably prefer "CR" to a
minus sign.

errr.... I like scroll bars too. And check boxes & radio buttons. They
are easy to program and easier to use. They are intuitive. Yes, green
screen is going away but until it does, why not use what we've got?

(I believe I am about to learn something I should already know. But
hey, I will learn from Scott any day, and thank him for it.