At 10:53 AM -0700 10/2/01, F. Ricardo, Ph.D. wrote: >Now, it does nothing about the "$" prefix, which if absolutely necessary would need >implementation in something like the following abominable manner. In apps like Excel, >the "$" in cells are not part of the data. Rather they are part of the metadata of a >cell, which means that something similar would need to be reflected in MetaCard. >Among the 2 options are to store the data in one (hidden) metadata field and to >display the "pretty" version of it in another. This means building a 2-field >management subsystem. The hidden metadata field would keep a totally different >version of the data, for instance, > >cellH:A >cellV:1 >rect:25,50,65,80 >val:25.50 >prefix:$ >name:Net Sales
Instead of using another field, couldn't you simply use custom properties of the field with the data in it? regards, Geoff Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
