C++ help plz

[WiLD]

wow thank you again. every1 here is so helpful thank you all. now that i understand those 2 varibles clearly i will understand most bot sources abit more.
Thank you

WiLD

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

No typo in my post. VB lets you assume a lot of stuff you can't assume in other languages.

[dxoigmn]

No typo in my post. VB lets you assume a lot of stuff you can't assume in other languages.

I don't want to start a language war, but I'm wondering what that "stuff" is.  Care to elaborate?

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

That memory is magically handled for you.
Also that it's ok to, say, assign a string to an int.

[Yoni]

It's not OK to assign a string to an int in VB, but the conversion is indeed much simpler than in, say, C.

Converting from VB to C = "wtf? You have to use a function to copy strings?"

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

"what's a function?"

[Yoni]

Naa, VB at least uses the keyword "Function". Maybe "what's a pointer"

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

I mean, it's not like VB programmers actually make their own functions anyway.

[Yoni]

If they didn't write their own functions, they wouldn't get very far (not much farther from Label1.Caption="l33tb4wt")

[Camel]

hey, it's entirely possible to use pointers in vb!
1) manipulating copymemory (not really manipulating -- that is actually the intended use for copymemory, but to a vb programmer it's manipulation )
2) VarPtr(), StrPtr(), and ObjPtr()

i mean, why bother doing "str1 = mid(str2, 2)" when you could do "str1 = space(len(str2) - 1) : copymemory str1, strptr(str2) + 1, len(str2) - 1" ?

[Grok]

That won't work.

Strings in VB are ... well I'll let you try it.

[Etheran]

Unicode.

[Camel]

of course it would work
it wouldnt *accomplish* anything, but it would work

[c0ol]

NO, again im with storm, VB is horrible for you. VB will get u thinking like a retarted monkey, then when u actaully try to code in a real language you will have no idea whats going on.

[Camel]

well of course you wouldn't want to learn about pointers in vb. that would just be recockulous. it can be confusing enough just learning it in a real language, so it would be 50million times harder in vb. my point was that it is _possible_ to manipulate data with pointers in vb. example:

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   VerQueryValue lpbBuffer(0), "\", ffip, dwSize
   CopyMemory ffi, ffip, Len(ffi)

   version = 0
   CopyMemory x, ByVal ffip + 16, 4: version = version Or ((x And &HFF) * (256 ^ 2)) 'LShift(x And &HFF, 8 * 2)
   CopyMemory x, ByVal ffip + 18, 4: version = version Or ((x And &HFF) * (256 ^ 3)) 'LShift(x And &HFF, 8 * 3)
   CopyMemory x, ByVal ffip + 20, 4: version = version Or (x And &HFF)
   CopyMemory x, ByVal ffip + 22, 4: version = version Or ((x And &HFF) * (256 ^ 1)) 'LShift(x And &HFF, 8)

this doesn't write data to an address, it only reads data..but i think you'll get the point