Can anyone take a look at this? I´m stuck with GetPrivateProfileString problems

[Templario]

I have reduced the code to a very simple example with only one control in order to expose my problem in a clearer way.
The whole purpose of this thing is to use GetPrivateProfileString to read values from a ini and set them in vars. Then create all my mainwindow controls and call VarsToControls to adjust their state.
And when i close my app, it will get the current state of the controls and write the to the ini using WritePrivateProfileString before exiting.
Maybe it´s something simple, i don´t know... 2 entire days looking at the whole code, i´m beginning to get lost here.
Any help will be great

//char strCB1[2]; //This is declared at main.h 

------------iniIO.h------------------
int ini_read() { //This is called from main.c before the controls are created. 
GetPrivateProfileString("CheckBox1", "state", "1", strCB1, 2, "C:\\myapp\\myapp.ini"); 
return 0; 
} 

int VarsToControls() { //This is called from main.c after the controls are created. 
if (strCB1==1) { 
MessageBox (NULL, TEXT (strCB1), "strCB1 is equal to 1", MB_ICONERROR); 
//Theres code doing stuff here, setting edit fields as enabled/disabled, etc// 
} 
else { 
MessageBox (NULL, TEXT (strCB1), "strCB1 is not equal to 1", MB_ICONERROR); 
//Theres code doing stuff here, setting edit fields as enabled/disabled, etc// 
} 
return 0; 
} 
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Here´s the thing: I have placed this msbBoxes there to try to understand whats going on with my code. I always get the "strCB1 is not equal to 1" msgBox, and it shows me the value of strCB1 as 1
No compilor error or warnings using DEV-CPP (mingw 2.0, gcc3.2).

[novacain]

if (strCB1==1) is the problem

if(strstr(strCB1,"1")!=NULL)//match

if(atoi(strCB1)==1)//match

if(strCB1[0]=='1')//match

[Templario]

I was dealing with a string and not with a integer is that it? Anyway i used if(strCB1[0]=='1')//match solution and that solved a lot, things are starting to make sense here. The checkboxes and editfields are getting their state and contents from the vars. That function is called VarsToControl and its working 100% now.

What i want now is to do the opposite function which will get the state of the controls and set on that vars. It will be called ControlToVars.

In that function i need to set strCB1[0] with 0 or 1, deppending on the result of SendMessage(hwndCB1, BM_GETSTATE, (WPARAM)0 ,(LPARAM)0);


But if i can "if(strCB1[0]=='1'){ stuff }" why can´t i
strCB1[0] = (SendMessage(hwndCB1, BM_GETSTATE, (WPARAM)0 ,(LPARAM)0)); ?

[novacain]

I was dealing with a string and not with a integer is that it?

Yes

You can't make a apple an orange without some modifications.

You can't make an 'int' variable a 'char' varable without some modifications.

SendMessage() returns an int.

if(SendMessage(hwndCB1, BM_GETSTATE, (WPARAM)0 ,(LPARAM)0)==BST_CHECKED)
        strCB1[0]='1';

watch for BST_INDETERMINATE ect returns.


I would convert the ini values to more usable data types and store in a struture or an array of ints