[xfire]

I can not figure out why the number will not come back as a string instead of a double, it used to work, now it no longer works.

snum=(Double.parseDouble(String.valueOf(display.getText())));

Any help would be nice!

[Ravioli27]

snum=""+display.getText()should work as far as i know. Double.parseDouble(String str) is a method that converts a string to a double not the other way around.

[darek9576]

getText() returns a String so that is enough.

[jon.kiparsky]

display.getText() should be sufficient. You want a String, it's a String. /shrug

IF you want to validate that it's actually a double, the easiest way is to wrap a call to parseDouble in a try block. Use the catch block to reject the offered value (if you're in the catch block, it's not a double, so return to the user for another try) otherwise discard the parsed value and continue.

This post has been edited by jon.kiparsky: 05 December 2012 - 02:57 PM

[darek9576]

Good advice on try/catch block for number verification. Swing also allows you to consume() some stuff.

[xfire]

it did not really change anything

[jon.kiparsky]

Explain what you're trying to do. What are you expecting to find in display, and what does that need to be at the end of the day? And, by the way, what sort of component is display?

This post has been edited by jon.kiparsky: 05 December 2012 - 03:12 PM

[xfire]

i'm attempting to make a GUI-designed calculator, but when ever i do a simple equation, "2 + 2" = "0" but then when i try to go to the next equation, it doesn't clear like it's supposed to or the numbers that click add afterwards, as well as, i can't do numbers over "9 + 9" either

I can add the code and/or attach the program, if you want

[cfoley]

Code like you posted is designed to make things difficult to inspect:

snum=(Double.parseDouble(String.valueOf(display.getText())));

This should be written as:

String rawValue = display.getText();
String fiddledWith = String.valueOf(rawValue);
double result = Double.parseDouble(fiddledWith);

You can probably come up with better variable names but this is the best I can do without more context. As others have pointed out, this middle line does nothing (which is more obvious in my code than in yours):

String rawValue = display.getText();
double result = Double.parseDouble(rawValue);

Now you can start to inspect it. You can either set breakpoints in your debugger or insert a couple of println into your code to show the values of these two variables. Are they what you expected?

Edit: Is this piece of code even called? (a more common bug than you might think! Prove it with breakpoints/println)

[xfire]

here's the program below, this is the entire program after a few different theories have been tried.

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[pbl]

String.valueOf() returns as a String the argument.... don't what you would apply it to a String ???

double snum= Double.parseDouble(display.getText());

should achieve what you want or

String rawValue = display.getText();
double result = Double.parseDouble(rawValue);

[xfire]

i can still only do a single digit math

[pbl]

You mean single number ?
If you want more than one number use a STring split() on + / - *
an process each substring individually... you will have to find a way to save the operator thought