Re: Floating point library parameters

On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Roland Smith wrote:

> Hi Dennis
>
>> Ok, no answer implies an answer to my next question, but I'll ask it
>> anyway. Has anyone implemented external library calls to functions
>> that take floating point parameters? I note that the SwiftForth
>> support does not implement them, but I'm kind of hoping someone else
>> has looked at the issue and might have some advice, at least.
>
> There are some OpenGL demos out there that do what it sound like
> you are
> asking for. The one below is from the SwiftForth message archive and
> starts off with a few routines to pass floats to OpenGL. I was
> mucking
> around with calls to an image processing library Freeimage.dll (
> http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/sourcecode.html ) recently and
> used the
> same mechnism to pass float parameters with some success.
>
> Hope this helps, Roland

That's precisely what I was looking for!

Thanks Roland

DaR

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