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vtol

I checked by searching @F and don't seem to have any Floating-Point Functions but keep getting the ERROR.

Is there a illegal charactor I'm using in the INFO MENU or MSGBOX, etc ?

Please help, guess I'll be a newbie for awhile, lol

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Can you expand more on your question please? I'm not sure exactly what
you mean.

vtol · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:00 am Post subject:

I can't build the EXE because of that ERROR:
Warning! Floating-Point functions used without OPTIONAL DECIMALSEP

heres an EXAMPLE of what I have and tried to adjust somewhat:

Is any of the below formating wrong or illegal perhaps?

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

It looks like a decimal separator is required for using floating-point functions,
especially since they involve using decimal points. Smile

Try using OPTION DECIMALSEP,<separator> at the top of your code. Smile

EDIT: Strange, I did notice your code doesn't have any floating-point operations
in it. Confused

vtol · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:

well my actual code has about 3400 lines, that was just 1 line that I worked on to try to make the error go away.

But I didn't use any Floating-Point math etc..

typing OPTION DECIMALSEP,<separator> just as you see it?

and will that mess anything up? I do have regular non-floating math lines in the 3400 lines.

Its wierd, I had the ERROR few times before while working on the program. But mysteroiuslly goes away when I'm adjusting " " things, so I thought it might be my formating of MSGBOX or INFOs.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

You should add in place of <separator> the decimal separator you are
comfortable working with and you have used in your code. Most European
countries use a comma "," as their decimal separator while American
countries use a period "." as their decimal separator. Smile

vtol · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:20 am Post subject:

So I should try:
OPTION DECIMALSEP "."

Will that make my normal math mess up or MSGBOX INFO problems?

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

It shouldn't change anything with regular math or info boxes - and you
can always go back and erase that line of code if it stops anything from
working. Wink

vtol · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:

ok I tried it and it just went in a loop, never loaded (stays at Evloop)

OPTION DECIMALSEP,"."

hmm..

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Are you sure you haven't used something like the following in your code
that could be causing problems?

vtol · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:39 am Post subject:

Sorry, I found what it was, I added a triple IF with a needed END.
and had the program running process invisible prolly because of the IF with no END whammy or something.
But I added the OPTION DECIMALSEP,"." line to get rid of the Floating-Point ERROR also, thanks for all the help buddy..

Smile

jules · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:

The decimal separator message is only a warning, it doesn't stop the EXE being compiled. It does appear if certain functions that can take decimal values as arguments like @datetime() are used. It doesn't warn you if you use something like wait event,0.2 however. So I still release programs and then get users in Germany and so on complaining of runtime errors. Grrrr!