Thread: win32: how use LPVOID?

for apoiting a LPVOID we use:

Code:

string strText="hello world";
LPVOID lpText=static_cast<LPVOID>(&strtext)

until here fine.
for change the strText value we use:

Code:

*((string*)(lpText)) = "hello new world";

now imagine that we don't know that it's a string. how can i do it?

That looks extremely strange to me. Could you specify rather what you are attempting to accomplish? I fear you may be going about something in the wrong, or at least, a very awkward manner.

For example, this...

Code:

LPVOID lpText=static_cast<LPVOID>(&strtext)

If your intent there is to cast the address of a C++ Standard Library string object to an untyped void pointer, I can assure you that there is no function within the Windows Api that can make any use of that object. Windows Api functions that operate on character string data exclusively use pointers to null terminated strings, or a special case of those for COM Apis - BSTRs. If you have data in C++ Standard Library string objects, you need to use the string::c_str() member to return a pointer to the underlying null terminated string maintained by the string object.

Ditto what was said above. But to answer the other part of your question you could do something like this to know the type.

This code isn't compilable but here's the idea.

Code:

enum Types
{
    String,
    Int
}

struct TypeHolder
{
    void* Data;
    Types Type;
}

int value = 10;
TypeHolder holder;
holder.Data = &value;
holder.Type = Int;

LPVOID param = &holder;

Originally Posted by prog-bman

Ditto what was said above. But to answer the other part of your question you could do something like this to know the type.

This code isn't compilable but here's the idea.

Code:

enum Types
{
    String,
    Int
}

struct TypeHolder
{
    void* Data;
    Types Type;
}

int value = 10;
TypeHolder holder;
holder.Data = &value;
holder.Type = Int;

LPVOID param = &holder;

seems that i miss these thread. sorry.
yes i did something like that. and now works great
and thanks for your enum idea.. it's great