MathLib/TextLib Requests

[steeffeen]

yey just another requests/suggestions thread

MathLib

the MathLib offers some really useful functions but there's one i'm definitely missing:

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Real	Round(Real _Value, Integer _DecimalPlaces);

because currently i always have to use my workaround.. example for 2 decimal places:

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declare RoundedReal = MathLib::NearestInteger(Real * 100.) / 100.;

and i have a question about Integer to Real conversion, aren't these two methods equivalent? what's the difference?

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Real	ToReal (Integer _Argument1);
Real	NearestReal (Integer _Argument1);

i think it would be helpful if the parameter names of the Pow() method wouldn't be called _ArgumentX

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Real 	Pow (Real _Argument1, Real _Argument2);
[would be better like this]
Real 	Pow (Real _Base, Real _Exponent);

of course it's just about the documentation


TextLib

what's the point of the following method?

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Text	FormatInteger (Integer _Argument1, Integer _Argument2);

i think it would be great to have a method to know how big a string displayed on a label really will be, of course that's somehow impossible regarding stuff like style and textsize but at least knowing how much $color/style coding is included would be helpful
it's quite difficult and i can't really think of a good solution actually something like:

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Integer	Width(Text _Argument);

or methods like in manialib to strip styles would be great

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Text	StripLinks (Text _Argument);
Text	StripColors (Text _Argument);
Text	StripStyles (Text _Argument);

regards,
steff

[faserg1]

i think it would be great to have a method to know how big a string displayed on a label really will be, of course that's somehow impossible regarding stuff like style and textsize but at least knowing how much $color/style coding is included would be helpful
it's quite difficult and i can't really think of a good solution actually something like:
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Integer   Width(Text _Argument);

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Integer Length (Text _Argument1) * [Coeff]
If so, I writing my own lib, I will make this thing for you.