Need help adding !!

[iso96 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

i am trying to use lingo to add 1 to its value - on mousedown, which is easy enough, but i have for example '00045' and when i add 1 the number then becomes 46 can anyone help me so that the number will then read 00046.

thanks

[Andrew Morton]

> but i have for example '00045'

That is a string, not a number.

>and when i add 1 the number then becomes 46

That's because Lingo looks at the arguments and operator and decides that it
needs to convert the string to a number to be able to do +.

> can anyone help me so that the number will then read 00046.

You need to pad out the string representation of the number:

on mouseUp
myTextmember.text=zeroPad(integer(myTextMember.tex t)+1, 5)
end mouseUp

on zeroPad(s, nTot)
if ilk(s)=#integer then s=string(s)
if ilk(s)<>#string then return s
a=""
n=nTot-length(s)
if n<1 then return s
repeat with i=1 to n
put "0" after a
end repeat
put s after a
return a
end zeroPad

You can put the zeroPad function in a movie script if you'll be using it from
more than one place.

HTH

Andrew Morton

[iso96 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thankyou Andrew