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From: anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating Point #'s as Strings in Dialogs using Think C 3.0
Keywords: Getting garbage in TextItems...how come?
Message-ID: <41800@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 90 05:09:28 GMT
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>From: isler@grad1.cis.upenn.edu:
>The result is that garbage is printed in the dialog instead of the
>converted string. The above conversion method works fine when I am
>displaying floats as strings in windows, but it does not work here.

I'm not a C expert (yet), but since you're making a Pascal Toolbox
call with SetIText, don't you need to cast your numeric string
to be a Pacal type? (With /p, or something like that)
                                        
                                              --clark

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