It choked probably because your "idx" is defined as Int16 (ie short), and
DmNewRecord expected UInt16*.
At 02:36 PM 29/05/2001 -0400, Paul Tomsic wrote:
>A)
>I've got the following line:
>
>lrecH = DmNewRecord(MemopadDB,&idx,StrLen(ClipText)+1);
>
>and the Metroworks compiler is choking w/ the following:
>
>"illegal implicit conversion from 'short *' to 'unsigned short *'
>
>So, I've tried the following, but to no avail..
>
>lrecH = (unsigned short *)DmNewRecord(MemopadDB,&idx,StrLen(ClipText)+1);
>
>
>lrecH = (UInt32 *)DmNewRecord(MemopadDB,&idx,StrLen(ClipText)+1);
>
>neither seem to work, what am I doing wrong?
>
>B) I seem to be having trouble w/ Structs in header files, more
>specifically , the following code snippet produces an error of " ; expected"
>on the line w/ an arrow....
>
>typedef struct {
> char NumPZ [ 5];
> char OffsetToData [ 8];
> char NumRecords [ 4];
> char Reserved [22];
> char Terminator [ 1];
>} MasterInfoType;
>
>typedef struct {
> char NumPZ [ 5];
> char OffsetToData [ 8];
> char NumRecords [ 4];
> char InfoAvail [ 1];
> char LastOpen [ 5];
> char OpLevel [ 1];
> char LastPZ [ 5];
> char CurrRow [ 7];
> char Reserved [ 3];
> char Terminator [ 1];
>} RestoreInfoType;
>
>typedef struct {
> char PZ [ 5];
> char OffsetToData [ 8];
> char NumRecords [ 4];
> char Reserved [22];
> char Terminator [ 1];
>} PZInfoType;
>
>MasterInfoType MasterInfo;
>PZInfoType PZInfo;
>RestoreInfoType RestoreInfo;
>
>static Int OpenDatabase(void); // <------errors out here....
>
>what am I doing wrong?
>
>
>-Paul
>
>
>
>
>
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