Probably simple problem w/ RECT members

[fusikon]

I'm trying to do what I thought would be as straightforward a task as there can be.

All I want to do is set up a bunch of RECT objects to use in a DrawText call.

But for some reason my program crashes, and this crash seems to have to do with assigning values to the RECT structures.

I'm not a C person so I don't use structures too often. And I've only been programming C++ for a few months. So here's the code:

RECT *rctHeading;
RECT *rctBody;
RECT *rctFooter;

   rctHeading->left=0;
   rctHeading->top=0;
   rctHeading->right=639;
   rctHeading->bottom=60;
   rctBody->left=40;
   rctBody->top=80;
   rctBody->right=599;
   rctBody->bottom=449;
   rctFooter->left=0;
   rctFooter->top=460;
   rctFooter->right=639;
   rctFooter->bottom=479;

When I comment out the assignments the program works fine. What am I doing wrong?

[Fordy]

RECT *rctHeading; is a pointer....and if you dont assign a pointer to something, and then try dereference it, you'll be lucky not to crash

You could do;

RECT *rctHeading = new RECT;

that would allocate memory for the pointer to point to

[fusikon]

Gotcha.