align all balances with decimal

[mdpfeiffer]

Align all balance displays along decimal.

I want to be able to tell at a glance which is larger, even in a long list of transactions:

100

or

0.25106631

In a long list, it's kinda messy.

One way to achieve this would be to display 8 decimal places for each transaction. It's not elegant, but would work.

[IngCr3at1on]

Sounds nasty to me actually but I think we'll need other feedback on this to see if it's what others want.

[jwrb]

Displaying 8 decimal places is the easiest way to fix this.

Alternatively we could calculate the amount of white space needed on the end of a balance; and then display that amount of white space at the end to alight it.

[MitchellCash]

This is not my comment either way but Paycoin is actually 6 decimal places.

[jwrb]

I always forget @MitchellCash. You are correct.

[IngCr3at1on]

@MitchellCash is it bad that I realized that but chose not to comment?

[MitchellCash]

@IngCr3at1on tsk tsk ;)

[mdpfeiffer]

I really like @jwrb's idea:

we could calculate the amount of white space needed on the end of a balance; and then display that amount of white space at the end to align it.

So when cryptsy shows 8 decimals that's just following BTC convention on their internal ledger?

Whoever designed this coin surely lacked ambition about its future value.

[IngCr3at1on]

@mdpfeiffer the original coin spec called from it going out to 8 decimal places and the original devs never changed the source (which was peercoin) from 6 to 8. Leaving us sort of stuck with 6.

[MitchellCash]

I always wondered if we could push it back to 8 but it seemed like it would mess a lot of shit up

[IngCr3at1on]

@MitchellCash I had a theory/idea on how to do that at one point but I've never attempted it. That's a discussion for somewhere else lol