Hi

My original question was how is it possible to hide some decimal
places when you use the identify tool so that you only see 2 decimal
places instead of 7.  A work around solution is given below which
works just fine.  There were certain scripts suggested (code
provided...thanks guys) which i haven't tried as yet but will do so.

Thanks for all the help


Thanks to Chris Abells, Jose Luis Portillo, Tim Gaulder, Chris
Bertinato, Tom Schuller and pbuys.

Solutions were to:
1.  Create a new field in your attribute table as a string.  Then use
the Field Calculator to populate the new field using the following
requests:
[the name of the 7character field you want to change].AsString.Left(5)
This will remove all but the 5 leftmost characters in the original
field and
then place them in the new field.  You can then hide the former 7
character
field by going into Table, Properties and unchecking the field name.

2.  Make a new script and write the next:

number.setdefformat("dd.dd")

compile the script (with the compile button)
and execute it (with the run button)

After that every report of measurement will be given to you with two
decimal
places.

3.  Here is a solution as an AvenueScript:
myVTab = av.GetActiveDoc.GetVTab
inField = myVTab.FindField("inputField")
outField = myVTab.FindField("outPutField")
for each rec in myVTab
  s = myVTab.ReturnValueNumber(inField,rec)
  s.setFormat("d.dd")
  myVTab.SetValueString(outField,rec," "+s.AsString)
end
Make sure that the your table is active and editable before running
this script.
Vishanth Singh
GIS Support Technican
Corporate GIS - Land Information Systems
Durban Unicity
South Africa

gisusers@webmail.co.za
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