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replace var with float and support var as float typedef #337832 08/13/10 20:02 08/13/10 20:02
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 6,904 H HeelX OP Senior Expert
HeelX OP Senior Expert H Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 6,904	Hi JCL, can you please consider to abandon the var type soon? I don't think it is a big deal! Just replace everywhere var with float and create a backward compatibility through typedef float var; You can also replace all integer values with the int type (like panel coordinates) and savely use it since you automatically convert floats to int, right? I think this is NOT such a big deal, isn't it? Thanks in advance, -Christian

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: HeelX] #337839 08/13/10 21:10 08/13/10 21:10
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,538 WA, Australia J JibbSmart Expert
JibbSmart Expert J Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,538 WA, Australia	Seconded! Most of my headaches in anything motion/physics related comes from the fact that VECTORs are composed of vars. Jibb Formerly known as JulzMighty. I made KarBOOM!

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: JibbSmart] #337842 08/13/10 21:33 08/13/10 21:33
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 2,043 Germany Lukas Programmer
Lukas Programmer Joined: May 2007 Posts: 2,043 Germany	Dunno if this is so easy with backwards compatibility (because of precision and stuff, the "advantage" of vars is that is can exactly store numbers like 1000000.5), but otherwise I'd agree, too. But, replacing panel coordinates and sizes with ints is kindof tricky, because if you set it to 0, it has the size of its bitmap, while it vanishes if you set it to 0.1. And I think there are some other issues like that with vars that normally could be ints... Kubetris LBGUI

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: Lukas] #337847 08/13/10 21:53 08/13/10 21:53
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,143 United Kingdom DJBMASTER Serious User
DJBMASTER Serious User Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,143 United Kingdom	Thirded (even a word? lol) I'd like lite-c to just stick with int and float instead of var.

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: DJBMASTER] #337848 08/13/10 21:55 08/13/10 21:55
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 5,210 İstanbul, Turkey Quad Senior Expert
Quad Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 5,210 İstanbul, Turkey	fourthed(im sure thats not a word :d) i always use floats my self but as others it would be great if predefined structs also use float. Last edited by Quadraxas; 08/13/10 21:55. 3333333333

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: Quad] #337850 08/13/10 22:06 08/13/10 22:06
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 40 UK M Macro Newbie
Macro Newbie M Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 40 UK	Fifthed. I prefer to work with standard c data types where I can. MACRO

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: Macro] #337852 08/13/10 22:09 08/13/10 22:09
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 6,861 Kiel (Germany) Superku Senior Expert
Superku Senior Expert Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 6,861 Kiel (Germany)	What's so bad about var? "Falls das Resultat nicht einfach nur dermassen gut aussieht, sollten Sie nochmal von vorn anfangen..." - Manual Check out my new game: Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: Macro] #337854 08/13/10 22:10 08/13/10 22:10
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,604 Deutschland ChrisB Serious User
ChrisB Serious User Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,604 Deutschland	I support this request too. My religion forbids the use of fixed point variables and I dont want to go to hell just for using acknex. www.Swollen-Eyeballs.org ICQ:169213431 #3dgs@quakenet

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: Superku] #337856 08/13/10 22:15 08/13/10 22:15
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 2,043 Germany Lukas Programmer
Lukas Programmer Joined: May 2007 Posts: 2,043 Germany	Originally Posted By: Superku What's so bad about var? This might give you some idea: http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=294389&page=2 What bugs me personally the most, is that I can't even exactly store a value of e.g. 0.1, because it get's converted to 102/1024 = 0.099609375. Kubetris LBGUI

Re: replace var with float and support var as float typedef [Re: Superku] #337858 08/13/10 22:29 08/13/10 22:29
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,538 WA, Australia J JibbSmart Expert
JibbSmart Expert J Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,538 WA, Australia	Originally Posted By: Superku What's so bad about var? If you've ever worked with Quaternions, you lose a horrendous amount of precision by using vars. This is because of all the trigonometry that gets used. The vec_ functions would be so much more useful if VECTORs were composed of floats. It's not the end of the world to write my own versions that use floats, but it's annoying. Jibb Formerly known as JulzMighty. I made KarBOOM!

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