Subject Re: [IBO] negative floating point
Author Helen Borrie
At 06:16 AM 18/07/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>I use IBO4_h.
>I have a TIB_Cursor which sums a float field, for some reason the
>field returned is incorrect if it is a negative, e.g. the field
>is '.-4' rather than '-0.04', no matter what display format or
>editmask I set on the cursor, I have tried the same with TIB_Query
>with the same result. Any suggestions why this is happening and how
>it can be solved?

I can't reproduce this in an ib_grid. Can you provide an example of the
SQL involved and also a) what mask you have tried for its DisplayFormat
property and b) what control you are displaying it in?

Helen