"Peter Nolan"  wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to understand how VB handles the Hexadecimal system to be sure
> I
> know how to use the waveoutgetvolume and waveoutsetvolume API's.
> Hex(-1) returns FFFF but I know I should get FFFFFFFF.
> However Hex(-1#) returns FFFFFFFF.
> What is the # symbol in this context and what does it do?

The # usually means double precision (8 bytes) whereas without any suffix it
should be single precision (4 bytes).  I don't know why you're getting that
number of bytes though unless it has to do with signed vs. unsigned numbers.

Tom Lake




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