I noticed that Servoy has no way of detecting that a number does not
fit entirely into the field (e.g.: xxxxxxxx or ???).
This can be nasty in some situations.
what do you mean doesn’t fit?
Doesn’t fit in what in the database?
(youre examples xxxxxxxx should work fine in the every db with normal numbers)
Sorry for not explaining it very clear.
What I mean Johan, is that if a field can display a certain number of lets say 10 digits. The eleventh digit is’nt displayed unless you pull the field somewhat wider.
In FMP the field will in that specific case no longer show the 10 digit number but return to xxxxxxxxxx.
This is of course in Servoy doable with a method, but I prefer this as standard feature
to make sure i understand
at the moment you have a bigger numer then the field can display it should display all X ?
and then? What happens when you enter the field to edit it?
You understand me right I think.
If you enter the crossed field, the numbers show up again and you can edit the number. However if you leave the field and the number of digits is still to large, the field is crossed again.
In case the number of digits was edited to (in my example) to the max visible 10 digits, the number is shown correctly without crosses.
This feature is only ment to warn the user that the number in the field exceeds the max number of displayed digits (and thus has some more digits behind the screens).
Hope you will see my point.
FYI, (because I think you are no former FMP dev. ) in Filemaker the field is question-marked.
If this is a formatting thing like ??? == XXXXXXXXXX when the number is too long then I don’t have an issue with this otherwise I really wouldn’t like this.
Did’nt you like the feature in FMP either Marcel?
What is the sense of looking at a number that is not correct?
And again, the question marks are only ment to warn you, they should
disappear when you click the field.
The FMP feature is even more smart than I suggested.
If a field is big enough to show the “E+nn format” the number is automaticly formatted that way, if needed.
I attached a picture which will explain everything.
i personally wouldn’t want a ? in the field
i want to see as much value als possible
maye something like:
…89090990
or
9098989…
would be better
…89090990
or
9098989…would be better
This one I agree too!
Ron:
The FMP feature is even more smart than I suggested.
If a field is big enough to show the “E+nn format” the number is automaticly formatted that way, if needed.
I attached a picture which will explain everything.
Perhaps you should just extend the mask if you know you have the possibility of more numbers??
##################################
Should always work.
I set US Currency setting to: $###,###,###,###,###.00 and have not yet had a bigger number that wouldn’t format.
Cheers,
Bob Cusick
Good ID Johan!
83838… or …83838 is even better than the “?”.
Hope you will put this on the feature list.
Thx.
Ron
Added to planning
Good news!
Thank you.