Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!jlk From: jlk@daimi.aau.dk (Jorgen Lindskov Knudsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: EditINT Date: 5 Mar 1998 21:00:15 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 31 Message-ID: <6dn3ov$sk6$1@nf.aau.dk> References: <34FEF161.3EBEB401@stud.umist.ac.uk> Reply-To: jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk (Jorgen Lindskov Knudsen) NNTP-Posting-Host: fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11445 In <34FEF161.3EBEB401@stud.umist.ac.uk> Hans Solgaard writes: >Hi there, >Could someone please tell me how to get an integer/real as value from a >'text' window?! >Does there not exist something similar to >NewText: EditText > (# open:: (# do ( etc .... #); > #); >What I get now from NewText.contents is of course a text, how can I get >an integer/real >value?? Ok, let's assume, that you execute: newText.contents->t[]; where t is a text reference (t: ^text). You can now get the integer by: t.reset; t.getint->i; Regards; Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen -- * Jorgen Lindskov Knudsen | Phone: +45 8942 3233 Fax: +45 8942 3255 * * Dept. of Computer Science | GSM: +45 2099 7357 * * Univ. of Aarhus, Building 540 | E-mail: jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk * * Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C | WWW: http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~jlk *