Yes - that's right. There are a number of quirks about using pointers in Delphi, although there are ways to do what you want.
Look at this tutorial: http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/Article.asp?Name=Pointers (and thanks to Neil Moffat for his useful site.) Also see Delphi Help Topic "Overview of Pointers" (Search for Pointers in the Index) for more details. For example - pointer addition: Depending on the pointer type, you cannot just say Ptr:=Ptr+12; to point 12 bytes further on. But you can say Inc(Ptr,12); Regards, Brendan Blake. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Sent: 19 January 2006 03:40 To: 'Borland's Delphi Discussion List' Subject: Pointer Operation? Hello all, I thought pointer Delphi was as flexible as pointers in C. I just realize that it is not. Or I haven't figured out how to use pointers. In C, I can randomly access any element in a memory block. For example, I can do this: int a[10], *pi, i; pi = a; for(i = 0; i < sizeof(a); i++) printf("%d\n", *(p + i)); Is it possible to access memory in this fashion *(p + i) using pointers in Delphi? It seems that it's only possible with PChar, but not for pointers for any other data types. Is that right? -- Best regards, Jack _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
