Borland C++, event functions

Question

Can anyone tell me how do I display the calculation in the TLabelEdit and why can't I do the mathematics calculation? I have included <math.h> .

void __fastcall TForm1::LabelEdit1(TObject *Sender)
{
  float h;
  if (yRed == 90) {
    h = 160*4.4/(2*xRed*tan39 - 160*tan39 + 160*tan40) //cannot compile due to error
    Height->SubLabel( h );  //Is this how you write it??????

  }
}

Please advice.

Answer 1

As said in the other answer tan is function from math.h so you need to #include it and call it as function so tan(angle) . Beware the angle is in radians [rad] so you need to convert from degrees !!!

There are 2 option how to write stuff to visual components. Using Caption and Text properties. Labels,buttons,Forms etc have Caption , Edit boxes, memos, etc... have Text . They are strings so you need to print your number to string (you can directly assign int,float,double,... to it but sprintf is better as you can control the formatting). Here is how I see it should look like:

#include <math.h>
const float deg=M_PI/180.0;
const int xRed=???;
const int yRed=???;
void __fastcall TForm1::LabelEdit1(TObject *Sender)
    {
    float h;
    if (yRed == 90) 
        {
        h = (160.0*4.4*tan(39.0*deg)/(2.0*float(xRed)))
          - (160.0*tan(39.0*deg))
          + (160.0*tan(40.0*deg));
        LabelEdit1->Caption=AnsiString().sprintf("h = %.3f",h);
        }
    }

btw. for visual components with Canvas (Like Form,PaintBox,...) you can write text directly using:

Canvas->TextOutA(x,y,"text");

Answer 2

tan is a function in math.h . You call it like any other function. You don't just put the number after the name.

Also keep in mind that tan works on radians, not degrees, so you probably don't want the values 39 and 40 anyway.

(Also, strongly consider moving from Turbo-C++ -- it is an extremely old and poorly supported compiler)