Thanks John! This is exactly what I'm looking for!
Jay
"John J. Corelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:27996@palm-dev-forum...
>
> 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]]On 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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