ArcObjects Library Reference (System)

IFractionFormat.FractionOption Property

[Visual Basic .NET]
Public Property FractionOption As esriFractionOptionEnum

[C#]
public esriFractionOptionEnum FractionOption {get; set;}

[C++]
HRESULT get_FractionOption(
  esriFractionOptionEnum* option
);

[C++]
HRESULT put_FractionOption(
  esriFractionOptionEnum option
);

[C++]
Parameters
option [out, retval]
  option is a parameter of type esriFractionOptionEnum
option [in]
  option is a parameter of type esriFractionOptionEnum

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

The FractionOption property sets or returns an option that determines how the FractionFactor property is used when the ValueToString method in the associated INumberFormat interface formats numbers.

The settings for FractionOption are:

Setting	Description
esriSpecifyFractionDigits	(Default) The FractionFactor property specifies the maximum number of digits the numerator or denominator is calculated to. If the value passed to ValueToString evaluates to a fraction whose numerator or denominator has more digits than specified in the FractionFactor property, the formatted string will be the closest fraction to the number of digits specified. In the example, StringToValue first evaluates the fraction 893/1234 to return a decimal value of 0.723662884927066. ValueToString can format this decimal number back to 893/1234; however, the maximum number of decimal places to be used in the output fraction is three (by default). Therefore, by default this returns a formatted result of 474/655 because this is the closest three-digit fraction to the decimal value. To calculate all four digits in the denominator and return to the original fraction, FractionFactor needs to be set to a value of 4. The caveat here is that the higher the FractionFactor setting, the more processing time it will take to figure out the fraction.
esriSpecifyFractionDenominator	The FractionFactor property value explicitly specifies the denominator. Since the ValueToString method doesn't have to calculate the denominator, the result is returned very quickly.