problem with pointers

[michael_green]

Hi,

I'm making my first attempt at using pointers and it's not going well. I'm trying to get a text string from a list view using the following:

type (T_LVITEM)item
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case(WM_NOTIFY)
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iret = SendMessage(hWndList,LVM_GETITEM,1,loc(item))

So far so good, item%psztext contains a value which I understand is:

pszText

Address of a null-terminated string containing the item text ....

But what do I do with it from here? I've been trying to equate psztext to a pointer associated with a text string, but if I declare the pointer thus:

character*80tstring
pointer(pstring,tstring)

I get an access violation, and if I do the following:

character*80, pointer:: pstring

whatever I do subsequently I get compiler errors. I realise I am doing something stupid here and I'd love to know what it is. Please can someone enlighten me. (Apologies if this message appears twice - I sent a very similar one 10 minutes ago and it seems to have vanished.)

Many thanks in advance,

Mike

[ahasan]

I believe you want to create a character variable, (for example szText), then use the following to retrieve the text from the LV item or subitem:

! this assigns the address to where the LV item or subitem text is stored

item%pszText = loc(szText)

iret = SendMessage(hWndList, LVM_GETITEM, 0, loc(item))

After the Sendmessage() function is executed,the character variable szText will contain the character string for the LV item or subitem referenced.