display text showing ".5" as "0.50"

pjnolen

I want to display text of ".5", but if I use that 'display text' behavior it always shows it as "0.50"

Is that supposed to occur?

Hachiko

you just write .5 in the text field or ".5" ? because with the "" it should be treated as string, therefore it should work.

pjnolen

If I type in this= .5

I get this= 0.50

If I type in this= ".5"

I get this=".5"

I want this= .5

I want no quotes, no 0's, no nothing. I'm not sure why it makes it some sort of float.

I just want what I type.

cbt

This really is more interesting than I thought...

-Make 2 self.attributes as "text" and name them text1,text2

-Make text1 "." (Without ")

-Make text2 5

-On the actor: Display text, self.text1..self.text2

There is no way it will write 0.50 because we are using 2 text attributes, not integers, not reals..
But BOOM!
It again writes 0.50.
Most interesting thing I've ever seen in GS

cbt

Any additional info on this one?

simo103

ugly solution but I did one actor with 5 as a display text in it and one actor with the . and then placed then in the correct order and got .5

don't know if that helps you?

pjnolen

I decided to have an actor display an image, with .5 as the picture.

lol

works fine

Asymptoteell

couldn't you just put a space after .5?
Like this: ".5 " but without the quotation marks?

JackBQuick

Asymptoteell said:
couldn't you just put a space after .5?
Like this: ".5 " but without the quotation marks?

Yes. But instead of an ordinary space (which doesn't work), use option+space. The option key should be two keys to the left of the space bar.