Type casting void * withing classes?

Im using mingw and everytime i try to type cast a void * to a special class of mine i get some bs about it being a "non-aggregate type" can anyone help?

o i forgot to mention its like this

void *Account;

and then i try to type cast Account to CPlayer so i can use the char *Name within CPlayer's... right now i got some ghetto system of resassigning like

CPlayer *boo = (CPlayer *)Account;

strcpy(boo->Name,"Bob");

i want to be able to use it directly like this
strcpy(Account->Name,"Bob");

plzzz help!

You just can't do it directly like that. You'd have to do:

strcpy(((CPlayer*)Account)->Name,"Bob");

right, a void * has no members. you have very little hope of calling functions off of it.

aha thank you very much i didnt know to include the Account within the () :) i was doing thiS (CPlayer *)Account->Name; and getting the error:P thanks again!

How do u type cast something like this

CConnection *con;//which has a void * to Account which is a CPlayer which has a bool named Online

like con->Account->Online = true; ?

arr i have two books on C++ neither dable into type casting very well :(

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Originally posted by some moron
How do u type cast something like this

CConnection *con;//which has a void * to Account which is a CPlayer which has a bool named Online

like con->Account->Online = true; ?

arr i have two books on C++ neither dable into type casting very well :(

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((CPlayer *) (con->Account))->Online = true;