Passing and converting LPVOID

[greyham]

Hi. I'm a beginner to C++ so bear with me. I'm trying to pass a
character array to a new thread so I thought I could pass the pointer
to the character array and cast it as a LPVOID (I know nothing about
LPVOIDs by the way). So I currently have:

AfxBeginThread(myThread,(LPVOID) *myBuffer);

My method myThread looks like:

UINT myThread(LPVOID LParam) {
....[code]...
char* sendBuffer = (char*)LParam;
....[code]...
}

But sendBuffer doesn't point to myBuffer. Any suggestions? Sorry I
can't describe the problem better - I hope you know what I want to do.
But thanks for the help!

[Victor Bazarov]

greyham wrote:

Hi. I'm a beginner to C++ so bear with me. I'm trying to pass a
character array to a new thread so I thought I could pass the pointer
to the character array and cast it as a LPVOID (I know nothing about
LPVOIDs by the way). So I currently have:

AfxBeginThread(myThread,(LPVOID) *myBuffer); ^
Drop the asterisk here.
My method myThread looks like:

UINT myThread(LPVOID LParam) {
...[code]...
char* sendBuffer = (char*)LParam;
...[code]...
}

But sendBuffer doesn't point to myBuffer. Any suggestions? Sorry I
can't describe the problem better - I hope you know what I want to do.
But thanks for the help!

V

[greyham]

Thanks!! Works great!