Dongsun Han

Whenever I input "1.0" in a message box, it automatically changes to "1.". I'd like to display properly "1.0" with "0" to later use in jit.gl.text. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks!!

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Whenever I input "1.0" in a message box, it automatically changes to "1.". I'd like to display properly "1.0" with "0" to later use in jit.gl.text. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks!! 

Hello! 
Whenever I input "1.0" in a message box, it automatically changes to "1.". I'd like to display properly "1.0" with "0" to later use 

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Thanks for the reply! Maybe my question was not clear. I wanted to display "0" preceeded by "1." which is not a significant number. So your patch would not let me achieve this... Max automatically deletes nonsignificant numbers before printing!

Thanks for the reply! Maybe my question was not clear. I wanted to display "0" preceeded by "1." which is not a significant number. So your patch  would not let me achieve this... Max automatically deletes nonsignificant numbers before printing! 

one must first convert to symbol, then cut off what is not needed.

my mac just died but there are solutions with combine and with sprintf.

Oh... I just tried writing "1.0" with double quotes, and smart Max reads it without quotes and displays only 1.0. Solved, thanks all!

yeah, if you are lucky (and it seems you are) certain objects will also ignore the quotes if they are part of an incoming symbol - and not convert it to a number again (in jit.lcd it doesnt work i think, it would display with quotes - gl.text seems to do that)

otherwise, in max 6 or higher, sprintf supports "symout", which allows padding left and right: 

this way would be required if you plan further modifications to the symbol "1.0" or of it is dynamic.


yeah, if you are lucky (and it seems you are) certain objects will also ignore the quotes if they are part of an incoming symbol - and not convert it to a number again (in jit.lcd it doesnt work i think, it would display with quotes - gl.text seems to do that)

otherwise, in max 6 or higher, sprintf supports "symout", which allows padding left and right: 
[sprintf symout %.2f] 

this way would be required if you plan further modifications to the symbol "1.0" or of it is dynamic.


Ah okay! Now I understand what you meant by "converting to symbol first". Thanks )))

yeah "converting to symbol first" in your case means "typing it in quotes into messagebox already with the number of digits you want" :)


yeah "converting to symbol first" in your case means "typing it in quotes into messagebox already with the number of digits you want" :)

sprintf can also do both in one job.


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