Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but this certainly looks like a bug. When the code below is executed, note that the fractional part of thresh disappears, i.e., 59.99 becomes 59.00.

Thanks!

Phillip

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#include <acknex.h>
#include <default.c>

var x= 61.0, thresh= 59.99;

TEXT* out_txt= {
pos_x = 100; pos_y = 100;
font = "Arial#24bi";
strings= 10;
flags= VISIBLE;
}

function main() {

video_mode = 7; // create a program window of 800x600 pixels
screen_color.blue = 50; // and make its background dark blue

var i;

for (i=0; i<10; i++) {

str_cat_num( (out_txt.pstring)[i], "%0.2f", x);

if (x >= thresh) {
str_cat( (out_txt.pstring)[i], " >= ");
}
else {
str_cat( (out_txt.pstring)[i], " < ");
}

str_cat_num( (out_txt.pstring)[i], "%0.2f", thresh);

x-= 0.47;

}

}

You're using "var" variables here. Programming languages have different types of variables with different ranges and precision. You can find a description in the manual under "variables".

Is there a deep dark secret there, somewhere.
No, there isn't.
Stop looking.

The manual seems fairly clear on this:

var 4 bytes -1048577.999 to 1048576.999** 0.001

Perhaps 0.001 means something different in German? (just kidding)

It seems as though "var x= 61.0, thresh= 59.99;" actually assigns a value of 59.000 to thresh rather than 59.990.

Hmm, simply running your program would show you that its still 59.99.

Maybe you'r using an outdated version or something like that?

Thanks, Petra. Yours was the only useful suggestion that I've received. The version that I was using was only 60 days old, but it seems as though the Conitec people have quietly fixed a lot of things in the interim. Thanks again!

Phillip