Displaying integers in a text object?

[GV1]

How can I display an integer in a text object?

The following example doesn't work:

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decl val = 9;
setattribute(OctaveLabel.octaveValue, 'content', val);

But if I do the following it works fine:

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setattribute(OctaveLabel.octaveValue, 'content', '5');

[oldgearguy]

try this:

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decl val = 9;
setattribute(OctaveLabel.octaveValue, 'content', ''+val);

outside the box man, outside the box.

[MrCorba]

You'll have to concatenate the integer and an empty string and this will turn the value into a string. Like this

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decl val = 9;
setattribute(OctaveLabel.octaveValue, 'content', '' + val);

It's not optimal but once you know it it's easy to work around it.

Ah damn, oldgearguy beat me to it

[GV1]

try this:

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decl val = 9;
setattribute(OctaveLabel.octaveValue, 'content', ''+val);

outside the box man, outside the box.

I tried that, it didn't work. Really odd. Unless this is only available in newer updates.

[GV1]

Only other thing I can think of is use a monitor object, make it transparent and put a black empty text object over monitor. Urgh. Hackish if I have to do that.

[oldgearguy]

try this:

I tried that, it didn't work. Really odd. Unless this is only available in newer updates.

I forgot you were on original hardware. Does this work?

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decl val={0x39};
setattribute (Label, 'content', arraytostring(val));

If it does, that means you'll have to do more math to add 0x30 to each decimal place and do the division to break down the raw number.

[oldgearguy]

Here's a quick and dirty way to take a number and array-ify it. You'll probably want to make it more elegant, but you get the idea:

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decl val, tmp;
decl num=4819, i=0, remain;

while (num > 0) {
   remain = num % 10;
   tmp[i++] = remain + 0x30;
   num = floor(num / 10);
}
i--;

while (i >= 0)
   val[sizeof(tmp) - i - 1] = tmp[i--];

setattribute (Label, 'content', arraytostring(val));

[GV1]

Thanks. I was thinking about doing this. Will give it a shot tomorrow.

[GV1]

Testing now. I'm not sure how I can make it more elegant except to contain it in a function ... that's a solid solution to be honest.

[GV1]

Works

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setattribute(testTxt, 'content', Helpers.intToString(49));

Thanks!