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Conversion of types in c++

Ok, ive been at this c++ thing for a few weeks now, and i have a question which has been bugging me (no pun intended :P)

How do you convert from char to int to string to char[] to byte??!!

For example, i am getting the seconds played in a wave file, using a MMTIME struct :-

MMTIME time;
time.wType = TIME_MS;
waveOutGetPosition(waveHandle, &time, sizeof(time));
char c = time.u.smpte.sec;
TextOut(GetDC(hwnd), 420, 50, (char*)c, sizeof(c));

this shows nothing at all!

(yes the space at 420, 50 is clear :P)

So can someone just give me a quick example of how to do some type conversions??

regards,
Robert

Excalibur81

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Ok, the question "How do you convert from char to int to string to char[] to byte??!!" is an exageration of what needs to be done in this particular example, but i would just like to know these 'common' conversions, cause its been quite annoying not knowing what sucessfully casts to what....

Salim Fayad

Hello Excallibur81,
about conversions, well, that's how u do it:
u can use : static_cast<type>(variable)
where the "type" is the type that u want and variable is the variable that u want to change the type

Excalibur81

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thanx, but i kinda already new that...

It just seems that, like in the above case, some casts dont work...

If i created a LPCTSTR variable, such as
LPCTSTR s = "this works!!";
and then passed this to the TextOut() proc, it would work fine,
i.e. TextOut(GetDC(hwnd), 420, 50, s, 12);

if i cast the char c to a LPCTSTR such as:
TextOut(GetDC(hwnd), 420, 50, (LPCTSTR)c, 50);
it shows no text at all...
Presumably because the LPCTSTR cast is just a pointer (LP = LONG POINTER, CT = Character, STR = Star i think! )
so i think all that is being printed out is a pointer to a char.....
and what needs to be printed out is the byte returned by time.u.smpte.sec, which has a numerical value....

if i declare BYTE b = time.u.smpte.sec; and then pass this to TextOut, i also get no text output.....

However, if i pass an array of chars it works:
char d[10] = "123456789";

So you see my problem with weird casting and what actually 'fits' in what!!!

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Excalibur81

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Thanks cmaryus, thats just what i needed :)

From Delphi, you have StrToInt, and IntToStr, i knew there had to be some kind of C++ equivalent, but my documentation didn't have any listed....

It has a few minor examples that had 'itoa' and 'atoi', but i never thought to use those as keywords.....

Yes, the s = "this works!!" thing is as i expected in that you are only passing the address to the pointer, rather than the data.

thanks for making c++ that much easier to a humble beginner ;)

cmaryus

you're wellcome :)