Entering numericals via num pad in Germany

[fredmr]

Hi folks,

first of all a big "thank you" to the developers of HMG and all other involved people !!!

Currently I'm trying to solve a problem associated with a german characteristic:
In Germany numeric values have the decimal separator ',' and not '.' like in most
parts of the world. The german thousands separator is "." and not "," like usual.

Example:

in Germany: 1.234.567,89
in USA: 1,234,567.89

So german keyboard have a ',' on the num pad instead of '.'

I'm now playing around with textboxes and its inputmask parameter: When I
define the appropiate texbox property als numeric, I have to use the international
way of entering values, for example via inputmask "999.00". Germans are not
able to use the ',' of their num pads. :-(

When I define the textbox as a character based one I'm able to define an
inputmask like "999.999,99" but I'll have to eval any of such textboxes and to
convert those strings into numericals... :-(

Is there any solution for this behaviour ? Is it possible to tell HARBOUR to use
the german separators ? 'Set Language To German' doesn't seem to work for
this situation...

Thank you in advance,
Fred...

[fredmr]

Hi again,

seeing that noone can help has taken me to have a look into the
user components example. When trying to compile 'demo.prg'
in 'C:\HMG\SAMPLES\USER_COMPONENTS' I get the following
errors:

Harbour 1.0.0 Intl. (Rev. 9175)
Copyright (c) 1999-2008, http://www.harbour-project.org/
Compiling 'demo.prg'...
demo.prg(22) Error E0030 Syntax error: "syntax error at '.'"
demo.prg(23) Error E0030 Syntax error: "syntax error at '.'"
demo.prg(24) Error E0030 Syntax error: "syntax error at '.'"
demo.prg(25) Error E0030 Syntax error: "syntax error at '.'"
demo.prg(34) Error E0030 Syntax error: "syntax error at '@'"
Compiling module 'MyButton.Prg'...
5 errors

No code generated
gcc: demo.c: No such file or directory
gcc: no input files
gcc: demo.o: No such file or directory
C:\HMG\SAMPLES\USER_COMPONENTS\demo.c konnte nicht gefunden werden
C:\HMG\SAMPLES\USER_COMPONENTS\demo.o konnte nicht gefunden werden


So what's wrong with this example ?

TIA,
Fred...

[gfilatov]

...
When trying to compile 'demo.prg'
in 'C:\HMG\SAMPLES\USER_COMPONENTS' I get the following
errors:

...
So what's wrong with this example ?

Fred,

Take a look for readme.txt at your folder C:\HMG\SAMPLES\USER_COMPONENTS:

HMG USER COMPONENTS SAMPLE
--------------------------

To run this sample, please add the following text to c:\hmg\include\usrinit.ch

#define BASEDEF_MYBUTTON

#xcommand @ <row>,<col> MYBUTTON <name> ;
OF <parent> ;
CAPTION <caption> ;
ACTION <action> ;
=>;
_DefineMyButton(<"name">,<row>,<col>,<caption>,<{action}>,<"parent">)

#undef BASEDEF_MYBUTTON

And ADD the following to c:\hmg\include\i_usrsoop.ch without leaving blank
lines between the text currently in that file and this.

#define SOOP_MYBUTTON ;;
#xtranslate <Window> . \<Control\> . Disable => Domethod ( <"Window">, \<"Control"\> , "Disable" ) ;;
#xtranslate <Window> . \<Control\> . Enable => Domethod ( <"Window">, \<"Control"\> , "Enable" ) ;;
#xtranslate <Window> . \<Control\> . Handle => GetProperty ( <"Window">, \<"Control"\> , "Handle" ) ;;
#xtranslate <Window> . \<Control\> . Handle := \<v\> => SetProperty ( <"Window">, \<"Control"\> , "Handle" , \<v\> ) ;;
#undef SOOP_MYBUTTON ;;

I hope that give you an ideas.

[Rathinagiri]

Hi,

Please give your code also. Then only we can see what would be the error.

[fredmr]

Thank you !

It bas been my fault: I didn't change the usrinit.ch
I didn't carefully read the readme.txt :-(

Currently there's no source code; I only wanted to see
the example, but due to the missing include I couldn't
work.

Thank you again,
Fred...