jemfiner

Is there a way to make number display 0 - 9 as double digits. . . eg 00, 01 . . . ?

display-0-9-as-double-digits

This can be a little hard to navigate to in the docs when you are looking for it, and the documentation relies upon knowledge of other languages. You have to set the unit style attribute to custom, and then format your range with a reference(s). So your custom format would be 0%d. 0=the padding you wanted. %=reference, a 'look for this' tag. d= decimal(?), might be digit. I forget

This can be a little hard to navigate to in the docs when you are looking for it, and the documentation relies upon knowledge of other languages.   You have to set the unit style attribute to custom, and then format your range with a reference(s).  So your custom format would be 0%d.    0=the padding you wanted.  %=reference, a 'look for this' tag.  d= decimal(?), might be digit.  I forget


(just in the 'sprintf' helpfile, shows it's specific to the 'printf' format:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/

which means you can also use "0%.i" to do the same thing, or if you don't need the leading 0 to always be static(range is not restricted between 0-9), "%.2u" would be best for simple 'unsigned integers' in this case)

(just in the 'sprintf' helpfile, shows it's specific to the 'printf' format:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/
d = signed decimal integer
which means you can also use "0%.i" to do the same thing, or if you don't need the leading 0 to always be static(range is not restricted between 0-9), "%.2u" would be best for simple 'unsigned integers' in this case)


Thanks, that's great help . . . still not quite there though as I don't want numbers from 10 onwards to display with a leading zero. e.g. I'd like 10 to read as 10, not as 010 !

number doesn't appear to have the Unit Style option . . . is this the case or am I looking in the wrong place ?

as I don’t want numbers from 10 onwards to display with a leading zero. e.g. I’d like 10 to read as 10, not as 010 !

this is why i wrote: '"%.2u" would be best for simple ‘unsigned integers’ in this case' ;D

(and ya, only "live.numbox" has the special options)

this is why i wrote: '"%.2u" would be best for simple ‘unsigned integers’ in this case' ;D
(and ya, only "live.numbox" has the special options)


Brilliant ! Sorry, you did write that ! solved, thanks very much,

is there a way to do this with comment boxes? i.e., I'd like to display a couple timestamps in hh:mm:ss format in a comment box, but unfortunately the translate object does not use this "leading zero" format. Just wondering if it is possible to tell some object along the way to add a leading zero for single digits in the hh:mm:ss part

use sprintf %02d:%02d:%02d  for that
or combine with padding argument set.
