You can connect the note component to a double or integer parameter and connect that parameter to the expression component. Usually the data will try to be converted to whatever the input needs, but since expression component can read different data types, including strings, it doesn't get converted in this case.
On Dec 18, 2:53 pm, opposablethumbs <[email protected]> wrote: > ah, ok. > > i wonder if it would be a good request to be able to change the > properties of a note to a string, integer, or float? > it might seem kind of pointless, but to a noob i think it would be > kind of nice, I like to get as much exposed to me as possible so I can > "see" what is going on. > > thanks for your help > > On Dec 17, 5:03 pm, Dimitrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i do believe that notes output string variables, not doubles or floats > > (even if you passed them as input, there's an automatic conversion > > going on), so what you were actually passing into the round function > > was a string... > > > On Dec 17, 9:39 pm, opposablethumbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ah man, i had the function right all along then! > > > i had the result of a function going into a note, then taking the > > > output of the note into a function component and doing the round. > > > it wasn't taking the note value as X in the function. > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/functionWithNoteInpu... > > > > i bypassed the note and it works fine. > > > why is that? > > > thanks. > > > > On Dec 17, 2:17 pm, Dimitrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > round(number_you_want_to_round, how_many_decimals_you_want_to_have) > > > > hope it helps. > > > > > On Dec 17, 7:26 pm, opposablethumbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > can anyone help me out with the syntax? > > > > > i can't tell what is supposed to be in the brackets. > > > > > > i want it to round and limit the decimel places out to the > > > > > thousandth's. > > > > > > thanks. > >
