newbie Please Help !

[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

[Simon]

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

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.

[Skorpeo]

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

[Skorpeo]

Converter.zip ok figured it out but had to zip it was to large

[Konidias]

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!

[Skorpeo]

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