Thanks.....
Silly mistake.
Much appreciation.
Paul
"John Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> 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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