How to convert decimals to integers

[gm9]

It creates beautiful INTEGERS out of the ugly and mean numbers having a decimal point that every scripted mathematical outputs, and we want integers since no UI element (except those that Drumstix discovered) accepts non-integer numbers as values (unless it's as text of course).

[dragowulf]

Originally Posted by gm9

It creates beautiful INTEGERS out of the ugly and mean numbers having a decimal point that every scripted mathematical outputs, and we want integers since no UI element (except those that Drumstix discovered) accepts non-integer numbers as values (unless it's as text of course).

Why would you want non-integer numbers as values???

[gm9]

Well you don't, that's the whole point, but previously we had no way to obtain integers, since every mathematical operation in eq2 ui scripting adds a decimal point.

[dragowulf]

Originally Posted by gm9

Well you don't, that's the whole point, but previously we had no way to obtain integers, since every mathematical operation in eq2 ui scripting adds a decimal point.

So exactly why would this help us?

[lordebon]

You don't, you want integers.

But if I do 5+6 the game gives 11.0 (a float) and then if I try to put that in somewhere it gets upset because it only wants to take intergers and not floats.

But with this you can put in a float which will be converted to an integer and then can be read and put into those fields that only take integers.

[gm9]

Maybe an example helps.

A=1
B=3

If you do

C=A+B
D=B-A

you end up with

C=4.0000
D=2.0000

Now if you do

Location=C,D

you get

Location=4,2

which equals

Left=4
Top=2

Tada, you have your integers and can assign them to something else, eg

IconSize=Left

This allows you to assign the output of the mathematical operation A+B to, for example, IconSize, which you cannot do directly because of the decimal point.

[dragowulf]

I get it. That's going to be really helpful Drums.

Nice work....lol and thanks for explaining it to me.

[Drumstix42]

It works well.
I used it in my recent Persona window upload for the Average resist value. Feel free to split these posts into maybe a sticky for future reference.