adrian goya wrote:
Hi,
Ã'm building an interface for registering visitors to an expo. I'm on windows using 0.39.2-extended-test4 and the GUI is made with [gripd].... So, someone inserts his name, mail and phone number in 3 different textboxes in [gripd] and everything is [pack]ed together and inserted to a [textfile]. The problem is that the phone numbers get converted to scientific numeric format (eg: 0445554241424 = 4.4554e+011), so itŽs of no use.
How can I get the 0445554241424 (yes, that's a cellphone) to enter the textfile exactly as it is written in the textbox?
Pd stores numbers only with a limited precision, something like 5 or 6 decimal digits - but symbols are stored with any number of characters.
Use a symbol box, and [makefilename someprefix%s] before packing. Note: this will not store exactly as the number is entered, but the prefix is necessary otherwise it will be considered as a number on load, and then lose precision....
Claude