Thanks John! This is exactly what I'm looking for!

Jay


"John J. Corelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I'll take a stab at this one and in the spirit of "paying it forward" hope
I
> can help someone else
> on this forum as I have been helped in the past (very recently with just
> this exact problem)
>
> Use a character array to handle your text.  One such solution could be:
>
> #include <stringmgr.h>
> static MyDisplayFunction()
> {
>    char disp[8];  //need enough space for a the leading 0, 5 sig figs,
> decimal point and the NULL
>    Boolean result;
>    FieldPtr  fld;
>    FormPtr frm;
>
>    frm = FrmGetFormPtr(MyFormId);  // get a pointer to the form
>    StrCopy(disp,"0.03421");
>
>    // now get a field pointer
>    fld = FrmGetObjectPtr(frm,FrmGetObjectIndex(frm,MyFieldIdInThisForm));
>    FldDelete(fld,0,10);  // if you want to first delete what's there
>    FldSetInsertionPoint(fld, 0);  // set the insertion point to the
> beginning of the form
>    result = FldInsert(fld,disp,StrLen(disp));
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jay
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: [Q] Why is this difficult???
>
>
> Is it me? I am simply trying to print out in a textfield the number
0.03421
> and I can't seem to do it.
> Can someone help?
>
> Jay
>
>
>
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