<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can store the phone numbers if you make them a symbol rather than a float. An easy way to do that is to start the number with a +. Otherwise, you'll have to break up phone numbers into 6 digit chunks. Pd's number format can only store 6 digits (unless you are running 64-bit Pd on a 64-bit computer, then you have many more digits).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 19, 2006, at 8:42 PM, adrian goya wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>mmmh,,, well, actually, I think it´s pretty much ok for what I´m doing, I just need to find the best way to make it work. The thing is that the register form has a GEM window in the background where a PMPD patch reacting to keystrokes make spheres dance around your textextruded name as you input your data and the camera changes position when each field is being written. Looks ok. </DIV> <DIV>For a non-programmer who doesn´t know what a string is, Pd´s open and non-presumtive design is still a great tool just waiting to be explored...(if you have the time for it, i suppose)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>adrian.<BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">carmen</B> <_@<A href="http://whats-your.name">whats-your.name</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 05:49:57PM -0500, adrian goya wrote:<BR>> Hi,<BR>><BR>> Í'm building an interface for registering visitors to an expo. I'm on <BR>> windows using 0.39.2-extended-test4 and the GUI is made with [gripd].... So,<BR>> someone inserts his name, mail and phone number in 3 different textboxes<BR>> in [gripd] and everything is [pack]ed together and added to a [textfile]. <BR>> The problem is that the phone numbers get converted to scientific numeric<BR>> format (eg: 0445554241424 = 4.4554e+011), so it´s of no use.<BR>><BR>> How can I get the 0445554241424 (yes, that's a cellphone) to enter the <BR>> textfile exactly as it is written in the textbox?<BR>><BR>> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this needs to be ready in the next<BR>> 12 hours... jeje.<BR><BR>your best bet may be rewritnig the form in rails. it should take about 12 minutes. PD is not deaigned for what you are doing, the least of which evidenced by its lack of string support, and propensity to reformat numbers to fit its definition of a number.. <BR><BR>><BR>> adrian.<BR><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> <A href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</A> mailing list<BR>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list"> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR><A href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</A> mailing list<BR>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list"> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</A> mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><DIV>------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is related to the telescope. </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN>-Edsger Dykstra</FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>