Stupid Compiler Tricks

[Cam]

File this one under stupid compiler tricks: (there's apparently no html allowed...) http://www.BinaryUprising.com/images/StupidError.JPG rriiiiight..... ;P ~Cam Desautels

[Lost User]

And I thought "I" had frustrating error messages! Why did that happen, do ya know?

[Cam]

Well, (keep in mind I'm pretty new to C++), I was screwing around in Visual Studio trying to learn something (anything). So, I decided to use AppWizard to make a new App, base-ing the view on CTreeView. This is all good and well...so then I decided I'd add something to my fancy new tree. But I needed a pointer to it. So, I did the following:

GetTreeCtrl()->InsertItem("Hello world")

And that worked just fine. I did that few times for different items, making some items below others, I changed the background color - I was just learning how the CTreeCtrl works. Anyway, at some point I thought, "Hey, if just stored the address of the Tree in a pointer, I'd save system resources (not to mention typing), by not having to call the GetTreeCtrl() function everytime." So, I wrote the following:

CTreeCtrl *pOurTree = GetTreeCtrl();

and it said the following to me:

cannot convert from 'class CTreeCtrl' to 'class CTreeCtrl *'

Confused and curious, I said "ok, what the hell, lets see what happens". Removed the asterisk, and compiled again, simply to see what it would say. And that's how I got the error :) . Anyway, I would be curious how to do it correctly. ~Cam Desautels (BinaryUprising.com)

[Michael Dunn]

What's weirder is that "GetTreeCtrl()->InsertItem("Hello world");" even worked. GetTreeCtrl() returns a CTreeCtrl& not a CTreeCtrl*. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ "Not our fault we are intellectually superior to the rest of the office." -- Paul Watson in the Lounge, 12/12/2001 Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm

[Cam]

He, he, he...it's the magic touch of stupidity. You'd be surprized how many ridiculous programming stunts I pull :). It's been a long time since I've programmed in anything that wasn't for the web...I'm very rusty.... ~Cam Desautels (BinaryUprising.com)