Re: zero padding numbers

[Graham J Lee]

On 18 Nov 2006, at 18:26, Graham J Lee wrote:

> On 18 Nov 2006, at 17:11, tgate wrote:
>
> > I didn't realize that, thank you.  Will this work in a non-gui  
> > situation as well?  I have a command line tool where I submit  
> > start and end frames as an argument but internally I want to pad  
> > them out.  It doesn't seem that the NSNumber class has a  
> > setFormatter: method however.
>
> No, it doesn't.  In the case of Cocoa you would use  
> NSNumberFormatter's:
> -(NSString *)stringFromNumber:(NSNumber *)aNumber
> or in gnustep-base you could call -(NSString *)stringForObjectValue: 
> (id)obj but until NSNumberFormatter is fully implemented in gnustep- 
> base that's kindof academic ;-)

I've got a few hours tomorrow, I'd like to have some go at  
implementing -stringForObjectValue:

Cheers,
Graham.

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