Ok, I really feel dumb now hehe. I was out of code for a while so I totally overlooked that fact about the operator referring to the pointer. Thanks for the help. I just used strlen and it works fine. Thanks for all the help! :-D

This is a newbie question but I somehow cannot get this part of my code to work. I have the user input into a character array of unspecified size like this: char *cArray1 = new char[]; cin >> cArray1; and then when I try to calculate how many elements is in the array, the sizeof() function always returns 4 for some reason. I'm calculating the number of elements by the following. size_t iArraySize = sizeof(cArray1)/sizeof(*cArray1); (I also tried int as the datatype instead of size_t but no luck) I always get 4 as the return cause sizeof(cArray1) always gives me 4 and 4/1=4. I think sizeof() cannot be used with dynamically allocated arrays, so is there anyways to do this? :confused: Please give me some advice how so solve this question... Thanks! :)

Well, finally got it to work just copying every item through a loop. So I guess that'll have to do for now. Thanks for everyone's help. Now I just need to figure out how to render the listview based on the data given to it.. (Don't know if that's possible..) But that's for another thread... :)

Great Response Derek! You are right that the assertion error is at runtime, I got confused.. :) This definitely put me in the right direction. However, after I copied the list through item data, nothing is showing in the newly generated list... I just added this code to test if the data are being copied in an overridden OnInitDialog function-> LVITEM tempdata; CopiedList->GetItem(&tempdata); m_SortedList.InsertItem(&tempdata); No luck... Please help me solve this final obstacle. Thanks.

Ok, I have been trying to get this to work for a while now. X| The response I got from my previous thread helped me in theory but didn't help my code.. :confused: so I'm posting a more detailed question if anyone can help me. I have a dialog based MFC app with a child listcontrol in report view. I then created another class for another window that will display another listcontrol but with the exact same column and data in it. My problem is that I can't copy the data over with what i've tried.. I have the user add item to the first list using SetItemData(). Like the following-> listitems.mask = LVIF_TEXT; listitems.iItem = 0; listitems.iSubItem = 0; listitems.pszText = (LPTSTR)(LPCTSTR)(strTitle); m_MyList.InsertItem(&listitems); listitems.mask = LVIF_TEXT; listitems.iSubItem = 1; listitems.pszText = (LPTSTR)(LPCTSTR)(m_strFirstName); m_MyList.SetItem(&listitems); ...... There are five columns and then when the user clicks a menu item it will open up another window showing the listcontrol that is supposed to show the same data. Here is the code for that-> void CMFCDlg::OnListSortbyday() { DWORD_PTR tempdata = m_MyList.GetItemData(0); GenList SortWindow; SortWindow.m_SortList.SetItemData(0,tempdata); SortWindow.DoModal(); } m_MyList is a public member CListCtrl of the main window, and m_SortList is a public member CListCtrl of the newly opened window. This is my most recent try at getting this to work... I get an assertion error when compiling though....:mad: My previous methods were declaring m_SortList as a CListCtrl pointer and point it to m_MyList, or setting the DDX_Control of the listview to CMFCDlg::m_MyList, but neither methods worked. I'm sure there is a way to get this to work.. Maybe making an instance of my main window.. but I don't know how to do that... So can someone guide me in the right direction? I don't want to just loop through and copy every single row, but I may have to.. Please help me out with some explicit instructions and sample code. Thanks!!:-D Sorry for the long post..

That's a really cool solution! I seemed to have missed that member function looking through MSDN :). That should solve my problem, thanks for everyone's help!

so how exactly should I declare this item data type?? I looked around MSDN and it seems like my LV_ITEM datatype is not quite the same as what you are talking about ravi. How should I declare that kind of datatype and some example of how to use it would be awesome! Thanks for all the comments! :)

Well, I am using the LV_ITEM datatype for the list. So I guess I should make it into a member variable and access it through scoping?? But wouldn't I still have to get the number of items and loop through inserting each one? I'm not quite understanding your suggestion ravi :) Can you please be a little more specific, like including a declaration example and how I should initialize my child diag class and/or duplicate list view class. Thanks for the replies!!

This is probably going to make some of you laugh but here goes :) I have a dialog base MFC app with a list control in report view. How can i copy the data in the list view class to another list view class in a child window? I have the child window pop up mapped to a button event. Would i have to create a loop to copy the data? or is there a faster way. Please help, Thanks!

Thanks for the reply! Just one last thing, will the .net Framework be enough? or i'd have to distribute the individual .dlls?

Will MFC programs written with VC++.net work for older platforms like Windows 98? Or I would have to distribute the MFC7 libraries? I'm having trouble getting things to run. Please help a newbie :)