Automatic formatting (%#g) with at least one decimal

[JimChretz]

I'm trying to configure a numeric control to display at least one decimal (1.0) but able to auto-adjust if user enters more (1.11).

%#g is great because it allows to show whatever decimals user enter, at the exception that it will show (1) instead of (1.0).

Is there a simple way to do this?

Cheers,

Jimmy

[WNM]

Simple way? It depends on your definition of "simple".

The way I know is that when a numeric control experiences a value-change event then a reference from it is passed to a subVI which analyzes the contained value and fiddles with the formatting of the control through the reference as needed.    A "simple" demo of this is attached.

[Gregory]

Yes, I couldn't find a way from Right Click >> Properties either.

[ben64]

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@1abvi3w wrote:

I'm trying to configure a numeric control to display at least one decimal (1.0) but able to auto-adjust if user enters more (1.11).

%#g is great because it allows to show whatever decimals user enter, at the exception that it will show (1) instead of (1.0).

Is there a simple way to do this?

Cheers,

Jimmy

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Unfortunatly there is no format specifier that do what you want. You would need a specifier that mean 1 or more decimal digits. # will always remove trailing zeros so you can't use it to get 1.0. Maybe you could develop an Xcontrol that does it (multiply the input by 10, apply %_#g formatting and divide by 10 after).

Ben64