b-rad311 wrote: a base-10 data type A what? Are you thinking of BCD[^]?

Your memory's a bit faulty on that one, the code in the book doesn't initialise COM or assume that it's loaded by a process that's already initialised it.

b-rad311 wrote: No error messages or anything. You briefly get the hour glass and then nothing. make sure they have a matching run-time release for VS2008. A run-time that is older than yours will offer no error message, only exit. get the latest runtime for your other machines and hopefully all will be well. _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

As Aescleal stated, that doesn't work for negative numbers. However you may test for the sign and act accordingly (subtracting .5, instead of adding it). :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

ok, thanks. I'll look into this.

Thanks Max!

worked great, thanks Ash!

Something I thought of when answering someone else's question, but it might be of use to you too. Have you considered a skip-list instead of a map? maps are binary trees, and skip lists occasionally offer speed improvements. It all comes down to need and use, but it is worth thinking about: http://www.codersource.net/microsoft-net/c-advanced/skip-list-a-simpler-alternative-to-binary-trees.aspx[^] _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

nope, no experience. we use Intel's MKL instead (mostly due to historical reasons) Watched code never compiles.

Thanks Ash. This is a very good explanation!

Thanks!

Thanks Ash, Sounds good, I'll give this a try.

I think you're talking about compiling the .EXE and merging all the assemblies into the resulting .EXE. You cannot do that using the standard Visual Studio and .NET Framework SDK toolset. There are third party tools out there that can do it, but none of them are free and they all cost considerable money. Salamander[^]. Thinstall was replaced with VMWare's ThinApp[^]. XenoCode Virtual Application Studio[^] ...among others... You're looking at spending at least $1,200.00 on these things. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

Thanks Kschuler!

Yes, vb.net is what I meant.

Hi John, Thanks for replying. The image is there because I can go to paint and paste it.

thanks .

If you did, then how would scanf() be able to change its contents? Since you are using MFC, have a look at CStringT::Tokenize() or AfxExtractSubString(). "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons "Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius

Yes, thanks!

Not sure about smarter, my approach just is simpler, more straightforward. Keep it simple! :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Getting an article published on CodeProject now is hard and not sufficiently rewarded.