I don't recall anyone talking about compatibility - the original question
asked about using sprintf, and several people suggested using StrPrintF
*instead*, with the appropriate cautions about reading the documentation for
StrPrintF, because it's not exactly the same as sprintf. I think it's safe
to assume that the person wanted to accomplish a specific result with
sprintf, and if that same result can be accomplished with StrPrintF, that's
a better solution.
I don't see why that advice would be confusing...
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:07 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Link error: "sprintf" is undefined
>
>
> But sprintf is not compatible with StrPrintF as Palm has
> written it. Even
> if the header redefines sprintf as StrPrintF, StrPrintF
> cannot handle the
> same format specifiers as sprintf. Giving the suggestion
> that sprintf is
> supported in the Palm OS will also give the impression that
> the function is
> complete and possibly cause problems later when they try
> something like
> formatting a floating point variable.
> Why confuse people? If we are going to give advice to other
> programmers,
> lets give them what will work for all situations. And not
> give advice that
> will work in *most* cases.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sreenivas Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Link error: "sprintf" is undefined
>
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > You can use the C calls like sprintf(). But you need to
> include the header
> > file "StdIOPalm.h".
> > In the header file I mentioned just now it is defined like
> this... (for
> > Example)
> >
> > #define sprintf StrPrintF
> >
> > What this does is if you call sprintf() then (If the header file is
> > included)
> > OS automatically replaces sprintf() with StrPrintF.
> > So if we want we can use C Calls, but OS internally
> replaces them by the
> > equivalent.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sreenivas Reddy
> > Developers' Nation DTS Engineer
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>
>
>
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