PrintF in Lingo

 

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Anyone want a rudimentary printF function in Lingo? If you don"t then please delete this message. If you do, then this is the limit of the function. It only pads spaces after the last character, not before or after the decimal point. How do you call it? You call it like this: PrintF [[a,b], [c,d],...] or printF [[a,b]]. Ex: PrintF [[x,20],["-",1],[y,20]]. This will reserve 20 characters for x, add a seperating "-" sign and then reserve 20 characters for y. You have an virtually unlimited number of arguments you can pass in one PrintF.

on FN   -- function range tester   -- by Alex Zavatone 8/2/95   -- Macromedia   set the floatprecision = 20   set mylist =  ["Sin(x)",2, 10, .1]   set thestart = getat(myList, 2)   set theEnd = getat(myList, 3)   set theStep = getat(myList, 4)   set theFn = getat(myList, 1)   set theLoop = theStart   put "Evaluating "& string(theFn)& " from "&theStart&" to "&theEnd&", step "&theStep   repeat while theLoop <= theEnd + theStep     set x = theLoop     PrintF [[x, 20], [" -> ",4],[ value(theFN), 22]]     set theLoop = theLoop + theStep   end repeat end on PrintF argumentList, returnField   -- printF by Alex Zavatone 8/2/1995   -- Macromedia   set output = Empty   repeat with currentArg =1 to count (argumentlist)     set DesiredLength = getat(getat(argumentList,currentarg ), 2)     set realLength = the number of chars in(string(getat(getat(argumentList,currentarg ), 1)))     put getat(getat(argumentList,currentarg ), 1) after output     -- here we fill in the spaces after the statements have been output     set output = (FillInTheSpaces(realLength, DesiredLength, output))   end repeat   put output end on FillInTheSpaces realLength, DesiredLength, output   repeat with temp = realLength to DesiredLength     put " " after Output   end repeat   return output end