Isn't this the same problem that Geoff Canyon just solved with a delightfully opaque one line solution in a recent thread:
function roundUp x,i -- rounds x up to the next i return x div i * i + item itemoffset((x mod i > 0),"true,false") of (i,0) end roundUp On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: > Let's say I have a numeric field and a button to increase the value and a > button to decrease the value. When I click the increase button, I want it to > increase to the next highest value that is evenly divisible by 20. So if the > field has a value of 19, a click will set the value to 20. If the field has a > value of 121, a click would increase it to 140. > > I know I could do it by adding (or subtracting in the case of a decrease) but > is there a more elegant and/or faster way to do that? > > Thanks, > Marty K > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
