class pointers

[john townsley]

hello

I am a little rustry with C++, when you declare a class method with a
pointer

eg...unsigned char *CTexture::LoadBitmapFile(char *fi....

what does this mean again, is this method of a class pointer?which is?

thanks

[Jack Klein]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:40:15 +1100, "john townsley"
<jo**********@optusnet.com.au> wrote in comp.lang.c++:

hello

I am a little rustry with C++, when you declare a class method with a
pointer

eg...unsigned char *CTexture::LoadBitmapFile(char *fi....

what does this mean again, is this method of a class pointer?which is?

thanks

That means that the function returns a pointer to an unsigned char.
Most likely, if the member function 'LoadBitmapFile' is any
indication, it actually points to the first of a number of unsigned
chars holding the data loaded from the file.

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[john townsley]

Why is their a need to return a pointer to char why not just a char.
Why would you return a pointer from a method......would it be to point to a
large bit of information?

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:40:15 +1100, "john townsley"
<jo**********@optusnet.com.au> wrote in comp.lang.c++:

hello

I am a little rustry with C++, when you declare a class method with a
pointer

eg...unsigned char *CTexture::LoadBitmapFile(char *fi....

what does this mean again, is this method of a class pointer?which is?

thanks

That means that the function returns a pointer to an unsigned char.
Most likely, if the member function 'LoadBitmapFile' is any
indication, it actually points to the first of a number of unsigned
chars holding the data loaded from the file.

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[Jack Klein]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:30:55 +1100, "john townsley"
<jo**********@optusnet.com.au> wrote in comp.lang.c++:

Please don't top-post, it is considered rude here and in most
technical discussion groups. New material you add belongs after the
quoted material you are replying to, as I did in your original post.
Do a search on Google, there are patches available for Microsoft's
brain-dead software to reply properly.

I have reformatted your post properly, and added a reply at the end
where it belongs.

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:40:15 +1100, "john townsley"
<jo**********@optusnet.com.au> wrote in comp.lang.c++:

hello

I am a little rustry with C++, when you declare a class method with a
pointer

eg...unsigned char *CTexture::LoadBitmapFile(char *fi....

what does this mean again, is this method of a class pointer?which is?

thanks

That means that the function returns a pointer to an unsigned char.
Most likely, if the member function 'LoadBitmapFile' is any
indication, it actually points to the first of a number of unsigned
chars holding the data loaded from the file.

Why is their a need to return a pointer to char why not just a char.
Why would you return a pointer from a method......would it be to point to a
large bit of information?

Read my reply again. This time read all the words, and think about
the last sentence that I wrote. If you still don't understand why a
function like this would return a pointer, you are more than rusty and
I would suggest getting a good book on C++.

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