POINT and pointer are quite different. POINT is a structure defined in one of the windows header files. It contains two variables that represent an x location and a y location.
A pointer is simply a memory address. For example, look at the following code:
Basically, to get the value at the address, you use the * (dereference operator). To get the actual memory address, you leave out the *.Code:int *pnum;//declares a pointer int number;//declares an int number=4;//sets number equal to 4 pnum=&number;//makes pnum 'point' to number cout<<number //outputs 4 <<endl<<*pnum //outputs a new line then 4 because 4 is the value stored at the address of number <<endl<<pnum; //outputs a new line then the memory address number=6; cout<<number<<endl<<*pnum; //outputs 6 twice because pnum points to number;
