makes sense thank you!
i always wondered what that was there for :)

how do i get form std::string to char * ? i see something on stackoverflow
but that requires me doing new on the passed char which defeats the purpose?
sorry to ask dumb...

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]>
wrote:

>   The pointer returned from c_str becomes invalid as soon as the owning
> string is destroyed. You can write your label into the passed char* and
> then return that instead.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>  *From:* Johannes Saam <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 13, 2015 2:00 PM
> *To:* Nuke plug-in development discussion
> <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [Nuke-dev] input_label and std::strings
>
>  Hey folks,
> quick one....
>
> i seam to have trouble in my input_label using std::strings
>
> i have tried this now in different plugins so its not a crazy compile
> related problem... nothing worked...
>
> the classic input label looks something like this
>
> const char * input_label( int n, char * ) const
> {
>     if ( n == 0 )
>         return "some label";
>     if ( n == 1 )
>         return "some other label";
> }
>
> so far so good that works of course.
>
> in my case i have std::strings with the label and the simplest test like
> {
>     str::string foo = "test";
>     return foo.c_str();
> }
> results in a blank label.... sometimes i get a label but with stupid
> characters...
>
>
> why is that? Does not make much sense to me...
> i am creating lots of custom inputs based on a Table_knob ( whch
> internally uses std::string ) so i have not a lot of options.
>
> Windows 7 nuke9
>
> can anyone enlighten me?
> jo
>
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