[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #259 here: http://bit.ly/3tY74Qj This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Re: numberformat question

Le 2021-03-22 12:14, John Balgenorth via use-livecode a écrit : You might be able to get the info by running your javascript from a shell command. Here is a link that might be of help; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12659778/is-it-possible-to-run-javascript-files-from-the-command-line

Re: numberformat question

The ingenuity of people on this list never ceases to amaze me. Bob S > On Mar 22, 2021, at 6:41 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Check out this thread in the forum: > > https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=25132=130985=longadd#p130985 > >

Re: numberformat question

On 3/22/21 9:39 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: JS should use exactly the same standard as LC https://www.avioconsulting.com/blog/overcoming-javascript-numeric-precision-issues 2^53, same in JS as LC. IEEE 754 Right. To get any more precision you'll have to stringify the

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

+1 On Mar 19, 2021, at 9:55 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Bob: > MS Office copy operations are notoriously problematic. > Microsoft maintains their own clipboard format, so that when > switching to another product the clipboard must be

Re: numberformat question

JS should use exactly the same standard as LC https://www.avioconsulting.com/blog/overcoming-javascript-numeric-precision-issues 2^53, same in JS as LC. IEEE 754 Sean On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 16:14, John Balgenorth via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > You might be able to

Re: numberformat question

You might be able to get the info by running your javascript from a shell command. Here is a link that might be of help; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12659778/is-it-possible-to-run-javascript-files-from-the-command-line JB > On Mar 22, 2021, at 9:05 AM, jbv via use-livecode > wrote:

Re: numberformat question

Le 2021-03-22 12:03, jbv via use-livecode a écrit : Hi Craig, Thank you for the link, but it doesn't help much : bigDivide(-0.007347880794884118999,10) returns 0 , -0.01 Ooops, I just realized that I forgot to add set numberformat to "0.##" at

Re: numberformat question

Hi Craig, Thank you for the link, but it doesn't help much : bigDivide(-0.007347880794884118999,10) returns 0 , -0.01 what I'm actually trying to do is to transpose in LC an algo for solving cubic equations that runs perfectly in javascript. So my solution will finally be to

What is the easiest way to add another snapshot from the same rect to the same PDF file?

Hi there, In an existing iOS app I do this: --- export snapshot from grc "printmarge" to tPDF as PNG put specialFolderPath("documents") & "/file.pdf" into tFilePath set the printPaperOrientation to "portrait" set the printMargins to 36,72,36,72 open printing to PDF tFilePath print this cd from

Re: numberformat question

Check out this thread in the forum: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=25132=130985=longadd#p130985 Craig > On Mar 21, 2021, at 7:34 AM, jbv via use-livecode > wrote: > > Paul, Sean, > > Thank you both

Re: LC Server - Check for Screen size?

Matthias, thank you so much for the complete solution. I’m such a beginner with LC server (and not even a beginner at JS) that your explanation was what I needed. -- Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ email