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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2004IE displaying 15 decimal places?
I recently installed Virtual PC 6.0 with Windows 2000 Professional on a new 1.5ghz Powerbook. In IE on Windows, I'm seeing math calculations on certain web sites carried out to 15 decimal places. For example, on the Windows Update site, rather than showing the total size of selected updates as 348 KB, it will say 348.000000000000001 KB. This is a major problem when trying to use certain web-based tools. I've tried various combinations of updating VPC to 6.1.1, omitting, then installing the Extras, nothing seems to have any effect. Does anyone have any suggestions? This is most likely related to the way VPC maps the floating point of the Mac to the the emulated PC. Since they Mac's is smaller, there can be round off errors like you're seeing. >I recently installed Virtual PC 6.0 with Windows 2000 Professional on >a new 1.5ghz Powerbook. In IE on Windows, I'm seeing math [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >then installing the Extras, nothing seems to have any effect. Does >anyone have any suggestions? Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows Website: http://www.essjae.com Thanks for your quick reply. Does anyone know if this floating point issue is known by Microsoft? Or if this will be addressed in VPC 7.0? This bug seems to have been introduced with my version of OS X (v 10.3.3 Build 7G43). Thanks! > This is most likely related to the way VPC maps the floating point of > the Mac to the the emulated PC. Since they Mac's is smaller, there [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows > Website: http://www.essjae.com The bug was known to Connectix and is known to MS. Its been in VPC since v4 and at the last report, they fixed it as best they could. >Thanks for your quick reply. Does anyone know if this floating point >issue is known by Microsoft? Or if this will be addressed in VPC 7.0? [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows >> Website: http://www.essjae.com Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows Website: http://www.essjae.com I know I've personally been seeing since I bought VPC, which was version 5. I just live with the Windows Update funky. None of the other web-enabled apps I run seem to run into this. -Gerry > The bug was known to Connectix and is known to MS. Its been in VPC > since v4 and at the last report, they fixed it as best they could. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows > Website: http://www.essjae.com It's never impacted anything in the past, but I was hoping to use VPC to use an IE only web-based application. The application performs a check on numbers entered into form fields, and the VPC bug adds about 16 decimal places to anything entered. There's no way to remove the extra data, and the web application returns an error, since it can only deal with whole numbers. At this point I'm just hoping it will be fixed in version 7.0. > I know I've personally been seeing since I bought VPC, which was version > 5. I just live with the Windows Update funky. None of the other [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows > > Website: http://www.essjae.com I don't work on the VPC Mac team - but AFAIK there are no plans to fix this. Doing so would halve the speed of all floating point operations. Cheers, Benjamin Armstrong ========================== Virtual PC Program Manager (Windows - not Macintosh) This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. On 5/27/04 7:29 PM, in article e2168235.0405271829.7bd5ae43@posting.google.com, "devnull" <ciao_sf@hotmail.com> wrote: > It's never impacted anything in the past, but I was hoping to use VPC > to use an IE only web-based application. The application performs a [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>> Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows >>> Website: http://www.essjae.com |
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