Thread: Wow I am confused. SendMessage API.

Okie doke, I am so darn confused as to why this piece of code is causing a segmentation fault.

Code:

char MyMsg[]="This is a message.\0";
char * pMyMsg=&MyMsg[0];
SendMessage(hwnd_MyListBox,LB_ADDSTRING,0,*pMyMsg);

The MSDN says that the LPARAM is supposed to be a pointer.

However when I use it without Dereferencing it

Code:

SendMessage(hwnd_MyListBox,LB_ADDSTRING,0,pMyMsg);

It tells me that it is expecting a long int.

It will compile the first way but then causes the fault.


Thanks for all help past/present/future.