Re: International number formats
Re: International number formats
- Subject: Re: International number formats
- From: Kevin Meaney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:27:50 +0000
G'day Brennan,
There might also be an issue relating to the version of the OS. A guy
writing scripts for iMagine Photo had problems with a script that he
wrote for one of his customers on 10.2.8.
It is a slightly different issue but it was to do with converting
floats to integers:
On Panther and Jaguar 10.2.5 the following worked just fine:
set theFloat to 10.2
set theInt to theFloat as integer
But running 10.2.8 this would fail stating that the coercion failed.
This also returns the same error code -1700.
I just thought I better mention it just in case your running 10.2.8 as
your problem and the above one could add to making life difficult for
working out what is going on.
Kevin
On 25 Feb 2005, at 13:45, Brennan wrote:
On 25/2/05 at 09:17, Bernardo Hoehl <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi Brennan,
I face the same questions here.
We, in Brazil use commas for decimals and periods for thousants too.
And most of my maths apps tend to result in error at the first time
run
and require my attention.
I looked up system preferences dictionary, and there isn't much info
there.
I was wondering if there is a lower level system access I could use to
change the number formats in system preference's international pane.
One work around would be dettecting the settings > alerting the user >
changing the formats to what I need.
But how?
Well I suppose something like this
try
"0.0" as number
on error msg number n
if n is -1700 then
.. non 'English' settings, do something
end if
end try
Is there an accepted/preferred/reliable method for tweaking system
preferences with AppleScript? I assume it requires messing with plists,
because the "system preferences" dictionary doesn't have a full object
model.
The ideal solution would be for Applescript to offer something like
using decimal seperator "."
-- blah blah blah
end using decimal seperator
I suppose it's worth posting an enhancement request for this.
Brennan
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