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| Posted by
| Klonical
(3 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Thu 16 Oct 2003 04:39 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I tried to use the health bar with large numbers
and it crash with an overflow error.
Then I tried to replace
pc = CInt ((CInt (iCurrent) / CInt (iMax)) * 10)
to
pc = CLng ((CLng (iCurrent) / CLng (iMax)) * 10)
And have a type mismatch
How should I do this?
Ty. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Ked
Russia (524 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Fri 17 Oct 2003 02:54 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Erm, are you trying to do something like converting string "234,7632" to long 234.7632? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shadowfyr
USA (1,792 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Fri 17 Oct 2003 05:03 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Long is a 32-bit integer Ked, not a decimal number.
I have had some issues with CLng and CInt. It seems that sometimes VBScript gets confused about what is actually going on. A better option is to do:
iCurrent = CLng(iCurrent)
iMax = CLng(iMax)
pc = CLng((iCurrent / iMax) * 10)
This should either tell you which of your values is causing a problem or fix it. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Fri 17 Oct 2003 05:21 AM (UTC) |
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| Man, if VBscript actually lets you do that, it's more screwed up that I think... because iCurrent is defined as an integer (right?), and setting assigning a long to iCurrent (type int) shouldn't change iCurrent to a long.
Your problem is probably coming from the type of pc, not the type of the other stuff. If you're assigning a long to the int, it may well be complaining at you.
You don't need to convert that value to a long, you can leave it as an int. If you look at what the code is actually doing - 10 * current/max - you'll see that it's a ratio, and technically speaking won't ever go above 10. The only way for it to equal 10 is if current == max, which makes current/max == 1, and 10*1 is obviously 10. And unless your variable names are very poorly chosen, current will never be greater than max.
Therefore, I would recommend you use the following:
pc = CInt ((CLng (iCurrent) / CLng (iMax)) * 10) |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
http://david.the-haleys.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shadowfyr
USA (1,792 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #4 on Fri 17 Oct 2003 06:09 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Well Ksilyan, you can't actually define a variable as any specific 'type'. When data is put into a variable in VBScript the engine 'guesses' at which 'type' would be the best one. So unless pc already contains some value, like an object reference or an integer, but you you try to stick a decimal into it, you won't get any complaints. VBScript uses type Variant for 'all' variables. It only casts it to a specific type once you put something in.
The irony of this is that changing cast can be easier (though it can sometimes decide to use its own type, and ignore what you want). A good example is A = CLgn(2), which may turn A into a Integer, instead of Long, forcing you to recast it to Long when you display the value. This will even happen sometimes if the value will 'fit' in an Integer, but only as a negative value.
Once in a while it will get completely confused though. In this case the code is likely doing something like:
iCurrent = wildcards(1) 'Certain to be a string.
iMax = Some prior value, probably a string.
pc = CLng(CLng("-String-") / CLng("-Strng-") * 10)
VBScript has on several occations gone nuts and had a heart attack trying to figure out what it is supposed to do for me with things like this, which is why it is better if the value from a wildcard to is forced into the type you need, before/while you try puting it in something else. You never know what you may end up with otherwise, especially since pc has no Type, except Variant and the value Empty before you put something in it. In this case it could be something as silly as the script seeing " 45 " and getting confused about 'what' the contents really are when you ask it to convert. You run into the same problem when you use type Variant in VB 6.0, but it is worse in VBSCript because there is no way to specifically tell it what 'type' you want. You are only allowed 'Dim <Name>', where full VB allows 'DIM <Name> As <Type>'. If you use the VB version it either does produces an error or ignores it. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Ked
Russia (524 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #5 on Fri 17 Oct 2003 06:29 AM (UTC) |
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| | Yeah sorry, I realized what I wrote right after hitting the Send button. But I always tend to reply to my own thoughts at the moment rather than the actual question :P | | Top |
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