Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-14 Thread nando
brilliant! -- Original Message --- From: Benoit Minisini To: nand...@nothingsimple.com, mailing list for gambas users Sent: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:28:35 +0100 Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float > On dimanche 14 décembre 2008, nando wrote: > > My apologies t

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-14 Thread Ron
Benoit Minisini wrote: > On dimanche 14 décembre 2008, nando wrote: > >> My apologies to all...I stand corrected for my mistake. >> The i = &h3fd5& converts hex to integer and is easiest to do it this >> way. This method does performs as the original person wanted but is a waste >> to do dis

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-14 Thread Benoit Minisini
On dimanche 14 décembre 2008, nando wrote: > My apologies to all...I stand corrected for my mistake. > The i = &h3fd5& converts hex to integer and is easiest to do it this > way. This method does performs as the original person wanted but is a waste > to do disk IO. Perhaps a pipe, write the i

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-14 Thread nando
ks, -Fernando -- Original Message --- From: Doriano Blengino To: nand...@nothingsimple.com, mailing list for gambas users Sent: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:05:54 +0100 Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float > nando ha scritto: > > I'm sorry, but I cannot see this as c

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-13 Thread Doriano Blengino
> To: gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:21:39 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float > > >> ... For 32 Float use the "Single" data type. >> See http://gambasdoc.org/help/cat/datatypes >> See http://gambas

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-13 Thread nando
ssage --- From: hjherb...@web.de To: gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:21:39 +0100 Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float > ... For 32 Float use the "Single" data type. > See http://gambasdoc.org/help/cat/datatypes > See http://gambasdoc.org/help/l

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-13 Thread nando
users Sent: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:28:33 +0100 Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float > nando schreef: > > Two Questions: > > 1) Is the HEX you show below the HEX representation of 4B of a IEEE 4B > > Float? > > 2) How do you get these values? (read in from file? som

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-13 Thread hjherbert
... For 32 Float use the "Single" data type. See http://gambasdoc.org/help/cat/datatypes See http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/type/single The example conversion may be done by this way: PUBLIC SUB DemoSingle() DIM i AS Integer DIM f AS Single DIM hH AS File i = &h3fd5& OPEN "/tmp/hexfloat.tmp

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-13 Thread hjherbert
Float number as you mean are 32 bit float numbers see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_precision Float numbers in GAMBAS are 64 bit float numbers see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_precision The follow program demonstrates how to convert a 64 Bit long value into a 64 bit gambas FLOAT (=

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-13 Thread Ron
nando schreef: > Two Questions: > 1) Is the HEX you show below the HEX representation of 4B of a IEEE 4B Float? > 2) How do you get these values? (read in from file? something else?) > -Fernando > > Yes those where IEEE floats, I needed the routine to decode values read from zigbee devices cal

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-12 Thread nando
2008 19:42:09 +0100 Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float > On Friday 12 December 2008, Ron wrote: > > Ron schreef: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Anyone have a routine to convert a hex string to a float? > > > Like these: > > >

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-12 Thread Ron_1st
PS http://books.google.com/books?id=YMmepn2xCcMC&pg=PA46&lpg=PR14&dq=floating+number+in+binary++z80&output=html page is 46 DATA REPRESENTATION. I did not trust the notation of sign exponent mantisa and found another source about it. There was my orginal sequence of sign., mantisa, exponent. As

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-12 Thread Ron_1st
On Friday 12 December 2008, Ron wrote: > Ron schreef: > > > > Hi, > > > > Anyone have a routine to convert a hex string to a float? > > Like these: > > B6FBEB3A = -0.07507766895287204 > > 3C5D2104 = 0.01349664106965065 > > > > Find lots of vb code, but those use copymem functions. > > > > Thank

Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-12 Thread Ron
Ron schreef: > > Hi, > > Anyone have a routine to convert a hex string to a float? > Like these: > B6FBEB3A = -0.07507766895287204 > 3C5D2104 = 0.01349664106965065 > > Find lots of vb code, but those use copymem functions. > > Thanks in advance! > To answer my own question: I ended up with thi

[Gambas-user] Hex string to float

2008-12-11 Thread Ron
Hi, Anyone have a routine to convert a hex string to a float? Like these: B6FBEB3A = -0.07507766895287204 3C5D2104 = 0.01349664106965065 Find lots of vb code, but those use copymem functions. Thanks in advance! Regards, Ron_2nd -