My guess is you're using c++ here. Either way, try casting the return value
like so:
recText = (Char*)MemHandleLock(recHandle);
HTH,
Ward
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SCMI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:29 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Fw: "void to char illegal conversion"
>
>
> Dear friends:
>
> In my applications I'm using this piece of code to retrieve
> the clipboard.
> I didn't have had any problem, but now that I'm trying to
> improve another
> application in wich I included this code, an error message
> ("void to char
> illegal conversion") appeared. What is wrong? How can I
> solve it? If not,
> how shoul I convert clipboard information to text?
>
> -----------------
> Word pasteLen;
> VoidHand recHandle;
> CharPtr recText;
>
> recHandle = ClipboardGetItem (clipboardText, &pasteLen);
> recText = MemHandleLock(recHandle); //the error appears in this line
> -----------------
>
> Thank you very much,
> Farzin
>
>
>
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