blue gui- need edit boxes that return integers

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Posted: 5th Mar 2005 02:41

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I got blue gui not so long ago and I am creating a level editing program. I have finished all the menu systems and was about to start coding the rest of the program when I discovered that the edit boxes only seem to return strings. However I need the edit boxes to return integers.

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IanG

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Posted: 5th Mar 2005 03:22

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unfortunately edit boxes are for text and therefore only will return a string - you could do a test like

if first char of string is 1 then myint =1 and so on

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Posted: 5th Mar 2005 03:56

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Use VAL(MyString$) to get the value.

You can use an up/down control with an input-disabled text box if you want to prevent alpha input.

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Posted: 5th Mar 2005 04:12

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Edit boxes return strings since that is what they are for - to store text which can be edited by the user.

Note that Val will return 0 if the box contains anything other than a number.

Putting it together.

editValue=val(getGadgetText(editGadgetHandle))