The last code is tested and work nice in my program. Thanks! I'm old school developer - my program must be optimized so I will be casting as many times as need. Even if I'm impressed portablE speed - portablE can draw 32000 random color filled random sized rectangles in 2 second on my sam460ex - much more than I need to my developed board game.

@mrdarek
On modern processors INT is usually no faster than the default type (VALUE, which is usually the same size as LONG). The main reason for using INT is to save memory!

However, it would still be useful to show how to do this, since you may run into other situations where you will want to do this for a good reason. If you were ONLY using Mod()'s first return value, then it would be easy:

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This is called "casting". And this would also work:
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However, since you are using two return values (both of which need casting to INT), you will have to work-around this using an extra variable:
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In general I find very little use for BYTE, INT & LONG, particularly for local variables (DEF), simply because they cause the need for a lot of casting, without much benefit. Therefore I feel it is best to avoid using them, except inside OBJECTs & CLASSes.

On the other hand, I often use BOOL & CHAR, because they help catch errors.

My Code:
DEF z1:INT
DEF z2:INT
z1,z2:=MOD(width,height)
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and got compilation error:
Hint: assigned variable has type INT, procedure's return value has type VALUE.
Speed is important in my program so I must have INT but how?