change numeral to string in Metafun

* change numeral to string in Metafun
@ 2010-07-14  0:19 dalyoung
  2010-07-14  0:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: dalyoung @ 2010-07-14  0:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ntg-context

Dear all,

I'd like to draw boxes with a label in a certain rule.
I define drawbox macro for it.
It receives 3 numbers, (the height of box, x position, y position).
I'd like to label the height of the box in the middle of the box.

I tired 
 label( h ,(3s*u+u, t*u + h*u/2)); %h is a received numeral.
But it is not working. If I change h to "letter" in label command, it is working.

So, I'd like to know how to put received numeral(the height of the box) as a label.
Or, how to change the value of a variable to a string.

Here is a working sample code.

\startuseMPgraphic{sample}
numeric u;
u := 0.5cm;

def drawbox (expr h, s, t) =
%numeric h,s,t;
draw unitsquare xyscaled (1cm, h*u) shifted (3*s*u, t*u);
label("1",(3s*u+u, t*u + h*u/2));
enddef;

drawbox (3, 0, 0); 
drawbox (6, 0, 3); 
drawbox (2, 1, 0); 
drawbox (1, 1, 2); 
drawbox (3, 2, 0) 
drawbox (4, 2, 3)

\stopuseMPgraphic

\starttext
\placefigure[here][]{sample}
{\useMPgraphic{sample}}

\stoptext

Thank you.
Dalyoung
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