Disable scientific notation

[Nerexis 19]

Is it possible to disable scientific notation for prices in shop? I have prices going into millions, and I dont want something like this 5.0+e005 etc. but 50000000 or even better 5 000 000.

[Riker2335 171]

I don't believe this is possible, I've not seen it on any other servers and I suspect it's an ARMA 3 output that cannot be changed. See what others say though as I'd love to be proven wrong.

[ka0s 457]

You can make abbreviations for the high amounts, because Arma simply won't show these amounts without fucking it up, so you can make if statements to change the output so: 

100000 = 100k - For example. 

A lot of people complained about the statusbar doing the exact same thing. But that's the only solution to this, make if statements "if above xxxxx then" 

[Nerexis 19]

Nah, you are wrong guys, I have figured it out.
To do that, overwrite ExileClient_gui_vehicleTraderDialog_updateVehicleListBox.sqf

/**
 * ExileClient_gui_vehicleTraderDialog_updateVehicleListBox
 *
 * Exile Mod
 * exile.majormittens.co.uk
 * © 2015 Exile Mod Team
 *
 * This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 
 * To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
 */
 
private["_dialog","_categoryClasses","_itemListControl","_categoryClass","_categoryVehicleClassNames","_className","_salesPrice","_indexEntryIndex","_playerMoney","_quality","_requiredRespect","_qualityColor","_popTabColor","_missingPopTabs","_missingRespect"];
disableSerialization;
_dialog = uiNameSpace getVariable ["RscExileVehicleTraderDialog", displayNull];
_categoryClasses = _this;
if (_categoryClasses select 0 == "") then
{
    _categoryClasses = getArray(missionConfigFile >> "CfgTraders" >> ExileClientCurrentTrader >> "categories");
};
_itemListControl = _dialog displayCtrl 4001;
// added by nerexis, thanks to reddit user https://www.reddit.com/user/AgentRev for this function
fnConvertNumber = {
    private ["_number","_mod","_digots","_digitsCount","_modBase","_numberText"];

    _number = [_this,0,0,[0]] call BIS_fnc_param;
    if (!finite _number) exitWith { str _number };

    _mod = [_this,1,3,[0]] call BIS_fnc_param;

    _digits = _number call BIS_fnc_numberDigits;
    _digitsCount = count _digits - 1;

    _modBase = _digitsCount % _mod;
    _numberText = "";

    {
        _numberText = _numberText + str _x;
        if ((_forEachIndex - _modBase) % _mod == 0 && _forEachIndex != _digitsCount) then { _numberText = _numberText + "," };
    } foreach _digits;

    _numberText
};

lbClear _itemListControl;
{
    _categoryClass = _x;
    _categoryVehicleClassNames = getArray(missionConfigFile >> "CfgTraderCategories" >> _categoryClass >> "items");
    {
        _className = _x;
        _salesPrice = getNumber(missionConfigFile >> "CfgExileArsenal" >> _className >> "price");
        _indexEntryIndex = _itemListControl lbAdd getText(configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _className >> "displayName");
        _playerMoney = player getVariable ["ExileMoney", 0];
        _quality = getNumber(missionConfigFile >> "CfgExileArsenal" >> _className >> "quality");
        _requiredRespect = getNumber(missionConfigFile >> "CfgTrading" >> "requiredRespect" >> format["Level%1",_quality]);
        _qualityColor = [1, 1, 1, 1];
        _popTabColor = [1, 1, 1, 1];
        switch (_quality) do
        {
            case 2:          { _qualityColor = [0.62, 0.87 ,0.23, 1]; };
            case 3:         { _qualityColor = [0, 0.78, 0.92, 1]; };
            case 4:         { _qualityColor = [0.62, 0.27, 0.58, 1]; };
            case 5:         { _qualityColor = [1, 0.7, 0.09, 1]; };
            case 6:         { _qualityColor = [0.93, 0, 0.48, 1]; };                        
        };
        if (_salesPrice > _playerMoney) then
        {
            _popTabColor = [0.91, 0, 0, 0.6];
            _missingPopTabs = _salesPrice - _playerMoney;
            _itemListControl lbSetTooltip [_indexEntryIndex, format["Missing %1 Pop Tabs", _missingPopTabs call fnConvertNumber]];
        };
        if (_requiredRespect > ExileClientPlayerScore) then
        {
            _qualityColor set [3, 0.3];
            _popTabColor set [3, 0.3];
            _missingRespect = _requiredRespect - ExileClientPlayerScore;
            _itemListControl lbSetTooltip [_indexEntryIndex, format["Missing %1 Respect", _missingRespect]];
        };
        if ((_salesPrice > _playerMoney) && (_requiredRespect > ExileClientPlayerScore)) then
        {
            _itemListControl lbSetTooltip [_indexEntryIndex, format["Missing %1 Pop Tabs & %2 Respect", _missingPopTabs call fnConvertNumber, _missingRespect]];
        };
        _itemListControl lbSetData [_indexEntryIndex, _className];
        _itemListControl lbSetTextRight [_indexEntryIndex, format["%1", _salesPrice call fnConvertNumber]];
        _itemListControl lbSetPictureRight [_indexEntryIndex, "exile_assets\texture\ui\poptab_trader_ca.paa"];
        _itemListControl lbSetColor [_indexEntryIndex, _qualityColor];
        _itemListControl lbSetColorRight [_indexEntryIndex, _popTabColor];
        _itemListControl lbSetPictureRightColor [_indexEntryIndex, _popTabColor];
        _itemListControl lbSetValue [_indexEntryIndex, _quality * 100000 + _salesPrice];
    }
    forEach _categoryVehicleClassNames;
}
forEach _categoryClasses;
lbSortByValue _itemListControl;
true

 

[Nerexis 19]

We are testing it and its working so far. Only traders. You have to use that function which formats number into text variable to use it somewhere else.

fnConvertNumber

Edited November 16, 2016 by Nerexis

[Riker2335 171]

@Nerexis Awesome work!  I've seen the scientific notation issue on MANY servers that have high value items. I specifically designed my server economy to prevent anything at the traders costing over 999,999 PT's. Probably would have been easier to use the script

[Kobayashi 86]

This is how you do the displays of large numbers:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_numberText

Edit: I'm actually really surprised the exile guys didn't do that in the trader dialogs if that's the case, they're usually pretty good about things like that....

Edited November 17, 2016 by Kobayashi

[infiSTAR 1293]

maybe because it's changing the value a bit

but idk

[Kobayashi 86]

13 hours ago, infiSTAR said:

maybe because it's changing the value a bit

but idk

Very interesting, most reasonable numbers return properly lol. I think anything under 2 billion will be fine, of course with a 32bit program anything over 2,147,483,647 will certainly not work correctly, so Arma being 32bit will definitely not display that particular number right