Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!earleh From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Script Manager compatible atof()? Message-ID: <14919@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 89 20:13:41 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Organization: Thayer School of Engineering Lines: 23 I have a program which solicits floating point values from the user. Usually I use a modeless dialog editText item for this purpose, with the font in the dialog being a user-configurable variable. This is not a high-volume-input program, but rather needs to obtain maybe a half-dozen floating point values to use as parameters to a simulation. I have been looking at the Script Manager 2.0 documentation recently, and it seems that it would be really neat to be able to use it to parse any locally-valid floating point representation. It does seem to be a rather complicated package, however, with about the same degree of complexity as the Macintosh File Manager, and I scarcely would know where to start if I wanted to use it for my rather simple requirements. My requirements are simple: convert an editText item, input in any font or script, to floating point extended or double using the new Script Manager for full generality. Has anyone done this, or (hopefully) have example code? My plans at present include writing output data as either binary or ASCII digits, but hey, I wouldn't turn up my nose at any output routines, either. Earle R. Horton