Thread: Get address of variable from pointer

Hello all,

I am working on some code that utilizes OpenSceneGraph functions and am having problems with pointers. The function I want to use is of the form

Code:

 writeNodeFile (const osg::Node &node, const std::string &filename)

I am trying to get a selected node (which is a pointer), find out how many children that node has, and then write each child to a file. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to make my osg::Node *child into const osg::Node& child for use in the function.

Code:

osg::Node *node = dynamic_cast<osg::Node *>(editor->getSelected()); //get selected node from scenegraph
			for (int i = 0; i< ((osg::Group*)node)->getNumChildren(); i++){  //get number of children of selected node (children are also nodes)
				//write children to .osg file
				osg::Node *child = ((osg::Group*)node)->getChild(i);  //returns osg::Node*	
				std::string childname = i + ".osg";  //filename for child
				osgDB::writeNodeFile(child , childname);  //save child <-----ERROR HERE
                      }

I get the error "cannot convert from 'osg::Node*' to 'osg::Node&'".

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
JackR

It sounds like when the * fixes the compile error, and your code is able to finish compiling successfully. The second step after compilation is linking. That is failing, and it has nothing to do with the error you fixed with the *.

>> What is strange is that the unresolved external symbol errors pop up for functions and classes from OSG and GTK that were running fine before.
Do you mean the entire application was compiling and linking before, or do you mean that you didn't see linker errors before when you had the compiling errors?

BTW, the * dereferences the pointer to access the object it points to. The function takes a reference to a Node, but child is a pointer. The * converts pointer to the object so a reference to it can be sent to the function.

Ah. I see now.

I will work on fixing my linking errors, then.

Thanks for the help!
JackR