[source lang="csharp"]using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Calculator
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private Boolean lastCharIsSymbol { get; set; }

int number;

bool add = false;
bool subtract = false;
bool multiply = false;
bool divide = false;

private void button0_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 0;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 1;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 2;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 3;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 4;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 5;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button6_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 6;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button7_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 7;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button8_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 8;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void button9_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
number = 9;
textBox1.Text += number.ToString();
lastCharIsSymbol = false;
}

private void buttonPlus_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (textBox1.Text == "" || lastCharIsSymbol)
return;
else
{
add = true;
textBox1.Text += " + ";
lastCharIsSymbol = true;
}
}

private void buttonMinus_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (textBox1.Text == "" || lastCharIsSymbol)
return;
else
{
subtract = true;
textBox1.Text += " - ";
lastCharIsSymbol = true;
}
}

private void buttonMultiply_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (textBox1.Text == "" || lastCharIsSymbol)
return;
else
{
multiply = true;
textBox1.Text += " * ";
lastCharIsSymbol = true;
}
}

private void buttonDivide_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (textBox1.Text == "" || lastCharIsSymbol)
return;
else
{
divide = true;
textBox1.Text += " / ";
lastCharIsSymbol = true;
}

}

private void buttonEquals_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (add)
{

}

if (subtract)
{

}

if (multiply)
{

}

if (divide)
{

}
}

private void buttonClear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.Text = String.Empty;
}
}
}
[/source]


What I want to do, is be able to use more than 2 numbers together in the one textbox.

For example, I want to be able to do like, 14 + 86 - 24, etc.

How do I go about doing this? If I had 2 textboxes it would seemingly be easy storing the values placed in them in 2 seperate ints. But since I want to be able to use more than 2 numbers how do I do this?

And for the record, this is a self-teaching project, not schoolwork.

Sorry if this is simple stuff/straight forward, my brains bunched up lately.

I'm still working through the basic stuff so my code may be cringe-worthy to a lot of people >_>

honestly I don't understand the point of threads like these.
I mean, what are you looking for? A solution? How being given a solution would make you improve? Programming is all about finding solutions to problems. If somebody just gives you the solution you'll be back asking another solution for your next problem and you won't learn anything.

You are looking for an hint? Here's one: break down your problem into simple parts, start from a simple case were you are making assumptions.. ie, assume you'll have a sequence of number operation number operation and you solve it left to right without any operation precedence.
Look how to get a string and split this into parts, C# strings are very good at this.
Once you get it done you might look into more complex stuff, operator precedence, brackets and so on.. this usually involves a creation of a tree of operation that is then solved into a solution.

You mentioned you've been programming for 4 years. .I dont mean any offense, but if after 4 years you're stuck at this, maybe you should consider the possibility that perhaps programming isn't what you were born to do?

or maybe I've just been too lazy to actually PROGRAM instead of just reading constantly?

It's not like I'm not understanding anything. I've just been approaching it wrong.

Why do some people have to come across as such snobs.

I think Telastyn meant that instead of storing your input as a single string, you can keep the input separated and THEN to display it you can construct the string from the input.

I'm just not quite sure on how to do this stuff. Dealing with 2 numbers would be easy, but multiple is sketchy for me.

I think what you are looking for is a Binary Expression Tree.You also might want to look into syntax trees. These do exactly what your looking to do....

honestly I don't understand the point of threads like these.
I mean, what are you looking for? A solution? How being given a solution would make you improve? Programming is all about finding solutions to problems. If somebody just gives you the solution you'll be back asking another solution for your next problem and you won't learn anything.

You are looking for an hint? Here's one: break down your problem into simple parts, start from a simple case were you are making assumptions.. ie, assume you'll have a sequence of number operation number operation and you solve it left to right without any operation precedence.
Look how to get a string and split this into parts, C# strings are very good at this.
Once you get it done you might look into more complex stuff, operator precedence, brackets and so on.. this usually involves a creation of a tree of operation that is then solved into a solution.

You mentioned you've been programming for 4 years. .I dont mean any offense, but if after 4 years you're stuck at this, maybe you should consider the possibility that perhaps programming isn't what you were born to do?

I'm a friend of his and he was talking to me about the issue. From what I can tell, he's been having trouble understanding how to solve it as opposed to understanding the what side.

Like if you told a person "You have to read the user input and store it as a variable." They'd know what you mean, but not the specifics of how (using Console.Readline, etc)

That's the best way I can explain his issue.