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Article #20213Re: Yet another HC bug?
From: Robert Stanley
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1987 21:11
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1987 21:11
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In article <130STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes: >Does anyone know the status of the Hypercard global property numberFormat? This >property is listed in the HC manual (working draft 3), but doesn't seem to be >working. There is a nasty little weasel statement somewhere that reads (from memory): "Because numberFormat can change the answers that all arithmetic gives, it is reset to the default whenever HyperCard is idle" Make of this what you will (I have never bothered to track this one all the way to its lair), but it surely looks like the reason for your problem. Perhaps you can stop HyperCard deciding it is idle by using a lock in the script, but it surely looks like numberFormat can be set to a new value only within the scope of a single script. Comments, anyone? -- Robert Stanley Cognos Incorporated S-mail: P.O. Box 9707 Voice: (613) 738-1440 (Research: there are 2!) 3755 Riverside Drive FAX: (613) 738-0002 Compuserve: 76174,3024 Ottawa, Ontario uucp: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!roberts CANADA K1G 3Z4
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!roberts From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Yet another HC bug? Message-ID: <1556@cognos.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 17:11:54 EDT Article-I.D.: cognos.1556 Posted: Mon Oct 12 17:11:54 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 04:35:35 EDT References: <130STORKEL@RICE> Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 25 Summary: It's not a bug, it's a feature