Trying to concatenate point into a string fails

trevordevore · Post by **trevordevore** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:20 pm

Why does this code not compile? I'm not seeing an error message but the widget won't display.

variable tParam as String
put the x of tTipOfMenuPoint parsed as string & "," & the y of tTipOfMenuPoint parsed as string into tParam

LCMark · Post by **LCMark** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:22 pm

@trevordevore: I think you want 'formatted as string' here, rather than 'parsed as string' - you are formatting a number as a string to concatenate with other strings.

trevordevore · Post by **trevordevore** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:25 pm

Ah, I had seen the "parsed as number" example and assumed string would be the same. Works now.

LCMark · Post by **LCMark** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:26 pm

Ah - 'parsing' is the term we are using to turn a string into another type (from its string representation); formatting is for going the other way (from a type to its string representation).

trevordevore · Post by **trevordevore** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:30 pm

That makes sense.

LCMark · Post by **LCMark** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:50 pm

Related enhancement request:http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14850

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