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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: sprintf() bug?
Message-ID: <870131@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 88 17:18:38 GMT
References: <4VzXREy00WABE7k0FU@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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I have found a solution to my problem.  To print out floats and
integers in Lightspeed C, use the following:

	char s[256];
	float x= 3.3;
	int y = 1;

		sprintf(s, "Identity number %d: %f squared =  %f",
		        x, (x * x));

		/*To print this in a window...*/
		DrawString(CtoPstr(s));

		/*Or to print this in the "stdio window", do...*/
		printf(s);


BTW, I tried to do this same thing using a Str255 variable instead of
a char array (in a variation of the above code), but it bombed...  

Also, using DrawString() *should* also work for a DA's window (after
you first recompile the sprintf/scanf library as a DA, so that things
are referenced off of A4 instead of A5), but it doesn't.  :-(

Any theories or workarounds are welcomed!

-T("All I want to do is print the value of a float in a DA's window!")ed