-- card: 6525 from stack: in
-- bmap block id: 8587
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 3493
-- name: format


-- part 1 (button)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: A003
-- rect: left=88 top=199 right=219 bottom=204
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 1
-- font id: 0
-- text size: 12
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: format normal
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  put editString("format", fld A, cd fld numDecs, TRUE, cd fld numChars, TRUE) into fld b
end mouseUp



-- part 2 (button)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: A003
-- rect: left=88 top=220 right=240 bottom=204
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 1
-- font id: 0
-- text size: 12
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: format Sci. Not.
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  put editString("format", fld A, cd fld numDecs, FALSE, cd fld numChars, TRUE) into fld b
end mouseUp



-- part 3 (field)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: 0002
-- rect: left=332 top=218 right=235 bottom=363
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 0
-- font id: 97
-- text size: 9
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 12
-- part name: numChars


-- part 4 (field)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: 0002
-- rect: left=436 top=218 right=235 bottom=467
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 0
-- font id: 97
-- text size: 9
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 12
-- part name: numDecs


-- part contents for background part 2
----- text -----
This function is for formatting numbers to a specified number of decimal places.  It will format the number into standard decimal or scientific notation.  It will also take as input standard decimal or scientific notation.

-- part contents for background part 1
----- text -----
format

-- part contents for background part 3
----- text -----
editString("Format", source, numDecimals, doDecimal, fieldWidth, padRight)
• source is the input number (can be scientific notation)
• numDecimals is the number of desired decimals (less one for Sci. Notation)
• doDecimal is TRUE for standard decimal format, FALSE for Sci. Notation
• fieldWidth is the desired resultant field width padded with spaces
• padRight is TRUE to place the number in the right, FALSE for the left
Note:  if fieldWidth is too small to display the number then it is ignored.


-- part contents for card part 3
----- text -----
18

-- part contents for card part 4
----- text -----
5

-- part contents for background part 4
----- text -----
2.3455E+2

-- part contents for background part 5
----- text -----
         234.55000