Thanks for the clarification. One last thing regarding < You can use the name of any structure-safe type in place of "Integer>
Since a Structure itself is "structure-safe" is there a way of Pointing to a structure ? I am trying to think of returning a pointer to a structure from a method ( since one cant return the structure directly ) Dangerous territory I know.... But... On 16/5/06 22:25, "Jonathan Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 16, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Dan Stenning wrote: > >> Does this always "increment" in Byte offsets or is there some >> scheme for >> incrementing pointers by datatype ? >> >> For example if myPtr is a pointer to pointers do I have to write >> myPtr = myPtr +Ptr(1) >> Or >> myPtr = myPtr +Ptr(4) ( assuming all pointers are 4 byte ) >> >> Basically - how near to the C++ way in which pointers get >> incremented can we >> get ? > > Not at all. Ptr isn't a C++ datatype, it's a REALbasic data type. > Every offset specified is in bytes. > > HTH, > Jon > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
