On 11/6/02 5:29 AM, "Alain Pastor" <apastor@...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Alain Pastor wrote:
[SNIP]
> 
> The code above was meant to illustrate the purpose and perhaps the
> simplest way would be to work with the double value if you need to do
> some calculations:
> 
> dim temp     as double
> dim testNum  as fixed : testNum = 321.0
> 
> temp = testNum : print temp * 10
> temp = testNum : print temp / 10

Well, thanks.  I did get a message from Staz explaining that fixed is just a
type for Toolbox functions.

It would be nice if the manual even mentioned that.  I wasn't doing anything
serious with fixed, I just noticed it when working with something else.

No big loss.