TCHAR* and LPTSTR

[kelprinc]

We are on totally different wave lengths. Forget about the first part. Assume you have a struct p that has shi502_netname as its member. shi502_netname is of type LPTSTR. now i want to print the LPTSTR string in the p struct. I tried doing this p->shi502_netname, but all i get is the first letter of the string Kelvin Chikomo

[Owner drawn]

I also declared a struct and put a member inside with the same name and it's still working.

struct
{
LPTSTR shi502_netname;
}p;

p.shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p.shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;
cout<

Here is the code. It's working.:^)

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[kelprinc]

I have edited the struct, its not a normal struct (typedef) typedef struct { LPTSTR shi502_netname; }p; p.shi502_netname = _T("test"); LPTSTR h = p.shi502_netname ; TCHAR* var = h;cout<

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typedef struct
{
LPTSTR shi502_netname;
}p;

Did you declare a variable of type p.

p p1; //don't forget this
p1.shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p1.shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;
cout<
It still works fine.

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[kelprinc]

Yes i do. you did not declare yours as *p look at my definition of my struct below typedef struct { LPTSTR shi502_netname; }*p; p p1; //don't forget thisp1.shi502_netname = _T("test");LPTSTR h = p1.shi502_netname ;TCHAR* var = h;cout<

[Owner drawn]

Aha here is the problem...

typedef struct
{
LPTSTR shi502_netname;
} ap,*p;

ap a;
p p1 = &a;
p1->shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p1->shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;
cout<

It works with the modifications that I made. You have to make another typedef along with *p i.e ap. If you don't what are you going to assign to a variable of type p. p needs an address of a struct of it's own type.

An advice: Please provide some meaningful names for variables and specially typedefs.

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--Nothing special
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[kelprinc]

I tried it it did not work the struct that iam using is part of the C++ libraries here it is typedef struct _SHARE_INFO_502 { LPTSTR shi502_netname; DWORD shi502_type; LPTSTR shi502_remark; DWORD shi502_permissions; DWORD shi502_max_uses; DWORD shi502_current_uses; LPTSTR shi502_path; LPTSTR shi502_passwd; DWORD shi502_reserved; PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR shi502_security_descriptor; } SHARE_INFO_502, *PSHARE_INFO_502, *LPSHARE_INFO_502; And i have to use *PSHARE_INFO_502 as the name of the struct Kelvin Chikomo

[Owner drawn]

Go ahead it will work. PSHARE_INFO_502 should take the address of a valid structure of the same type. Then it has to work. Probably like this: SHARE_INFO_502 shInfo; PSHARE_INFO_502 pShInfo = &shInfo; Now use pShInfo as you should.

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[kakan]

This maybe is a stupid question but I have to ask: Are your program using UNICODE? In that case, it's perfectly understandable: The console doesn't want UNICODE, so when your 't' is written to the consol, the console sees a 't', followed by a \0. And since \0 is a string terminator, the output is terminated. Could this be the case here?

[kelprinc]

Yes i am programing in unicode. So what shld i do Kelvin Chikomo

[kelprinc]

I get wrong out puts if i try this. let me just give you part of my code PSHARE_INFO_502 BufPtr,p; //SHARE_INFO_502 shInfo; //PSHARE_INFO_502 pShInfo = &shInfo; NET_API_STATUS res; LPTSTR lpszServer = NULL; DWORD er=0,tr=0,resume=0, i; //declare server variable lpszServer = lpszArgv[1]; cout<shi502_netname; cout<

[kakan]

Make sure your console output is in plain ANSI

[kelprinc]

I am not printing any thing to the console as yet. You can look at the above threads to see my code. Kelvin Chikomo

[David Crow]

kelprinc wrote:

I am not printing any thing to the console as yet.

Sure you are. What do you think cout is for?

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[kelprinc]

I am now trying to use the W2A conversion but im realy doubting it Kelvin Chikomo

[David Crow]

You need to use wcout instead of cout.

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"The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever." - Native American Proverb

[Prakash Nadar]

if you are using unicode build then you should use unicode set of apis to work on them. If you really need to work on multibyte string then you may have to use WideCharToMultiByte api to do the convertion.

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-Prakash

[Prakash Nadar]

as i can see from here, your real problem is probably not cout<. I guess that cout statement is a debug output statement. if you want to fix that part, you have to use wcout and it will print properly. Is there any other problem in your code beside printing? * * * -Prakash