[RESOLVED] What comes after Long?

I am working on a bandwidth meter and my bytes sent/received overflow long type. I tried currency but all the numbers are negative.

Try Double or Single

Double is 8 byte floating point number which covers the range of -1.79E+308 to 1.79E+308

Single is a 4 byte floating point number which covers the range of -3.40E38 to 3.40E38

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Originally Posted by frozen

... I tried currency but all the numbers are negative.

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Can you show us how you did it?

Single is also 4 byte, and goes to ~ +- 10^38

zaza



EDIT: Rats. Hacked! :)

Well so far double seems to be working.

In a nut shell I have

VB Code:

Private BytesReceived As Double
Private BytesSent As Double
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    If BytesReceived = 0 And BytesSent = 0 Then
        BytesReceived = IpHelper.BytesReceived
        BytesSent =  IpHelper.BytesSent
        Exit Sub
    End If
    Download = IpHelper.BytesReceived - BytesReceived
    Upload = IpHelper.BytesSent - BytesSent
End Sub

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Originally Posted by frozen

I am working on a bandwidth meter and my bytes sent/received overflow long type. I tried currency but all the numbers are negative.

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Can't you just trap the overflow error and then switch to KB, then MB, then GB? Make a global variable to store the mode you are keeping track in, and then divide the bytes by the current mode amount when you update. Something like (a more sophisticated version of) this:

VB Code:

Private lDivisor As Long      'Holds the current "mode"
Private lTotal As Long      'Holds the amount of data denominated by the "mode"
 
Public Sub AddBytes(lBytes As Long)
 
    On Error GoTo OverFlowCheck
    
    If lDivisor Then lBytes = lBytes \ lDivisor
    
    lTotal = lTotal + lBytes      'NOTE:  this is the only possible overflow in the sub.
    
OverFlowCheck:
    If Err.Number = 6 Then     'Overflow
        If lDivisor Then
            lDivisor = lDivisor * 1024
        Else
            lDivisor = 1024
        End If
        lTotal = (lTotal \ lDivisor) + (lBytes \ lDivisor)
    End If
    
End Sub
 
Private Function DisplayAs() As String     'Returns a string to append on the end of your display.
 
    Dim lTemp As Long
    
    lTemp = lDivisor \ 1024
    Select Case lTemp
        Case 0
            DisplayAs = "Bytes"
        Case 1
            DisplayAs = "KB"
        Case 2
            DisplayAs = "MB"
        Case 3
            DisplayAs = "GB"
        Case 4
            DisplayAs = "TB"        'If you get here, I want your connection  :P
    End Select
 
End Function