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MrTAToad
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 19:27
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I can get the first byte out of an address pointed to by a variable : (*addr), but how do you get the others - do you have to inc addr each time ?
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Puffy
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Posted: 16th Sep 2002 21:49
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... read up on references and pointers... i cant explain it in something short...
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 17th Sep 2002 12:00
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Unfortunatly in the manual it just states that you need a * before the variable name. The only way I've got it to work is to increase the address each time (which is not always viable).

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Puffy
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Posted: 19th Sep 2002 09:10
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=P the reference and pointer stuff you want to read up on is more of c++ to understand what your doing when you use those commands... just saying you need a * infront of a variable will prob end up with a memory leak... and if your lucky that will crash your comp... i guess dbpro has something wierd that takes care of it...
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 20th Sep 2002 12:54
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The main problem is that *(addr) works okay, but *(addr+3), for example doesn't. I was wondering if anyone knew how to use indexing without having to inc addr all the time.

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Puffy
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Posted: 21st Sep 2002 03:34
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plz tell me if you read up on pointers and references in C++
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 16:08
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In C/C++ *(addr+x) is valid and works well (as you dont have to increase/decrease addr all the time).

DBPro (at the moment) wont accept that

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Puffy
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 08:58
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=\ i bet you could make your own function dll and put it in the plugin folder but thats really overdoing it... =\ ill try to get something to work in dbpro
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 13:43
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Yes, it does seem rather daft having to write your own pointer routine (which I already have done)...

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Puffy
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Posted: 28th Sep 2002 10:46
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slide a copy of that file over this way (if you already have made it)... darthpuff@puffinteractive.com
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 28th Sep 2002 15:33
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You'll have to wait until Tuesday or so then - I'll have ADSL back at home..

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VietStylist
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Posted: 28th Sep 2002 17:23
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Dbpro has pointers and references? Now this is going to really whoop arse! Don't know how to use them really anyway. Just know it can make a function return more that one value at a time.

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