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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Drawstring Question
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Date: 30 Nov 90 20:28:07 GMT
References: <YbJQ_DO00Uzx40mkhy@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: rg2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Nelson Gasch)

In article <YbJQ_DO00Uzx40mkhy@andrew.cmu.edu>, rg2c+@andrew (Robert Nelson Gasch) writes:
>Now there is a new problem:
>Since I am using a drawing Window as my output medium, I can not use
>the standard output functions (printf). I want to display the values of
>some variables though. Since I have to use DrawString, this seems to be
>a problem. For example, how do I draw a properly formatted floating
>point number?? Drawstring does not give you formatting options and
>seems to require a string. How do you get around this ?? Any ideas??
>


How about:

fprintf(some_buffer, "%f", some_float);
drawstring(some_buffer);

(This assumes you have MPW C, which gives you 

void drawstring(char *s)

but you could also convert the string to pascal and use DrawString.

anders