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Subject: Re: SetDlgItemText() w/ BC++ 2.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.201214.14695@ccad.uiowa.edu>
From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
Date: 23 Mar 91 20:12:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.171838.7689@dbase.A-T.COM>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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From article <1991Mar15.171838.7689@dbase.A-T.COM>, by awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas):
> In article <1991Mar4.200940.27679@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, tmkk@uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman) writes:
>> 
> 
> I don't have BC++, just ordinary MSC, but I'm wondering if you're compiling
> in small model.  If so, then a quoted string literal will be passed as
> a 16-bit pointer, whereas SetDlgItemText wants a LPSTR.  If this is
> what's biting you, the following should fix it:
> 
> 	SetDlgItemText(hwnd, (LPSTR) "Something");
> 

You know what though, I thought ANSI 'C' states that if you use
prototypes, type conversions are automatic.  For instance, if you write

	/* prototype */
	double cos(double f);
	.
	.
 	.
	double x = cos(2);

then the 2 (integer by default in C) will be automatically type converted
to double.  Then WHY doesn't the type conversion work for LPSTR above?
Am I missing something here (could well be).

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