Chief Delphi - atan Problem

Hi Guys,

I have a little problem getting the atan function of Team 296's Math Library to work for me. What I need is calculating the Degree my Joystick is looking it by using atan(x,y).

I already know how to use the sin/cos function and how to work with the binary radians (-8,388,608 to 8,388,607) that the functions operate in.

But for some reason the results I get back from atan seem to be different from the one sin/cos give me or in different words: Say behave nonlinear in cases they should:

Here is what I tried (after I had problems with weird results):

Code:

short long brad; int int_brad;



// should give me 8388608/4 Brad = 45 Degree back, according to the way sin/cos work

brad = atan(1,1);



// Transform short long to int to be able to print the result with printf();

// Drop the last 8 Bit (Should be 32768/4=8192 after that)

brad>>=8;



// Put value in an Int

int_brad = (int)brad; 



// Print the Value to the Screen

printf("int_brad = %d\n", (int)int_brad); 



// ====Output===

int_brad = 8511

Converting this into Degree I got 46 Degree but I didn't like that because sin/cos worked way more accurate for me than this. So I tried different Values and that showed that there must be a problem:

Code:

atan(1,1) = 8511        (should be 32768/4=8192         = 45 Degree)

atan(1,-1) = 24256     (should be -32768/4=-8192      = -45 Degree)

atan(1,0) = 1799        (should be 0/32768=0)            = 0 Degree)

atan(1,2) = 1799        (should be 11548)                  = 63.43 Degree) 

atan(1,-2) = 1799       (should be-11548)                 = -63.43 Degree)

atan(2,1) = -1800       (should be 4736)                   = 26.57 Degree)

atan(2,-1) = -30969    (should be -4736                   = -26.57 Degree)

Anybody out there that has an Idea what I could do wrong or somebody that already has atan working?

Thanks for your Help,

Felix