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DLL Talk / matrix 4 cast commands

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basjak
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Posted: 1st Sep 2011 14:23
can someone give me an example comes coding about a useful use of the cast commands.

Quote: "CAST DOUBLE FLOAT TO DOUBLE INTEGER
CAST DOUBLE INTEGER TO DOUBLE FLOAT
CAST DWORD TO FLOAT
CAST FLOAT TO DWORD "
IanM
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Posted: 1st Sep 2011 15:32
They really aren't that useful to the general user.

These four functions are a way of converting a bit pattern to a float/double float, or creating a bit pattern from a float/double float.

Unless you are going to be doing bit manipulation of floats/double floats, then they are of no use to you.

Here's a single example that always gives you a negative value of a float:


Of course, that could be replaced with 'f = -abs(f)', but that's the idea - to manipulate the bit pattern directly.

Remember that most of my commands and function do things that *I* find useful, and may or may not be useful to anyone else.

basjak
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2011 01:07
thank you very much Ian. I like to know all the ins and outs.
sound driver
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2011 12:21
Great information! I agree most of you here and I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!

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