Bob_Hansen wrote on Jan 8
th, 2015 at 4:22pm:
First of all, I am curious about what industry, science, etc. needs accuracy to 12 decimal places?
Bob,
It's actually very mundane: The application is an electronic parts database. Capacitors are measured less than one...1 nanoFarad =1x10^-9, or 2.2picoFarad =2.2 x 1-^-12. When sorting, I prefer to sort in actual numeric order, so .0001 comes before .00001. The sort will also include items much greater than 1, such as resistors that can be 100s of millions.
Scientific notation won't work as it sorts on the prefix first.
If there's no way to expand the number of decimals, can anyone think of a decent workaround?
Also, I never heard anything about the other request: can MODE be set programmatically? I'd prefer to abandon the entire Sesame UI and replace it with a series of buttons. To do this, I'd have to have a way to switch between Add_New, Search, and Update modes without using Sesame's UI. Any ideas?
Bill in CNY