newbie Please Help !

trying to make a simple converter, for converting inches to mm. example is you enter the inches in box a and get the result for the mm in box b, easy enough I thought, my problem is I cant get decimals to read, I can get the result using Str$(Edit Value( "inches" )*25.4) however all I get is whole numbers, if I put in 1.5 I get 25.4. I need it to work with decimals up to 4 places cant seem to get it to work I have tried dp calc and have tried this string as well - Val( Edit Value( "inches" )*25.4) but get error that says, mixed string and numbers, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Originally Posted by Skorpeo

trying to make a simple converter, for converting inches to mm. example is you enter the inches in box a and get the result for the mm in box b, easy enough I thought, my problem is I cant get decimals to read, I can get the result using Str$(Edit Value( "inches" )*25.4) however all I get is whole numbers, if I put in 1.5 I get 25.4. I need it to work with decimals up to 4 places cant seem to get it to work I have tried dp calc and have tried this string as well - Val( Edit Value( "inches" )*25.4) but get error that says, mixed string and numbers, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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All numbers are treated as integers by default which is what is causing the issue here. To get around this you simply need to multiply by a decimal (can be 1.0 if you don't want to change the value) in the expression editor.

Edit Value( "inches" ) * 2.54

Should do the trick :-) Note that you can retrieve both edit text and numeric value from an edit box. If you are getting the numeric value then there is no need to use val( ) which converts a string to a number.

Thanks Simon still trying lol would upload so someone could take a look but don't know how to do that either lol

Attachment 9354 ok figured it out but had to zip it was to large

Your problem:

Set text to Str$(Edit Value( "inches" )*25.4)

the "Edit Value( "inches" )" part is rounding the value. Instead do this:

Set text to Str$(Val(Edittext$( "inches" ))*25.4)

By pulling the text from the edit box, it's going to be exactly what you put in there. Then you just use Val() to change the text to a number. Done!

Konidias, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, so much I have been trying everything and this worked GREAT :) Thank You