Re: Floating Point Within A Dialog

>FLOAT uses the floating package, and all references to the
fp package in response to callback actions need to be preceeded
by a /NDP to initialize the fp package.

rick

On May 3, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Bob Nash wrote:

> I am trying to validate a user-entered floating point string within
> a =
> Dialog using the flag returned by >FLOAT. This produces a floating =
> point error. =20
>
> I have tried feeding a static, valid, floating point string to
> >FLOAT =
> before exiting the Dialog without success. The same code executed
> in =
> the main application, outside the Dialog, produces valid results. I =
> assume it all has to do with floating point conversions within a =
> callback, but ...
>
> Does anyone know what is going on? I have a very clunky
> workararound, =
> but would prefer to validate before exiting the Dialog.
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