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Pointers and STL containers

Started by tifkagh Feb 17, 2002 at 9:40 AM 1 replies 500+ views
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tifkagh
tifkagh
Given the defintition; 
  
struct
{
	// In Game BOBs

	lpBOB			mousepointer;
	lpBOB			sheep;
	lpCharacter		player;
	lpGSTATE		gstate;
	//iCOORD			test;

} GameG ;
and that the GSTATE class contains an object map of type vector. I use the following declarations to create a pointer to the vector: 
  
GameG.gstate = new GSTATE(iTempWidth, iTempWidth);
vector<int>* ivMap = &GameG.gstate->map;
What does ivMap really point to? I was expecting ivMap[someint] to return the contents of the approipriate location within the gstate->map array/vector. Instead I get goobledigook.
SabreMan
SabreMan
You need to dereference the pointer. Use the form 

(*ivMap)[someInt]


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Kylotan
Kylotan
You can''t just treat the address of a vector as the same thing as the address of an array. Instead, use the address of the first element of the vector.

You should probably also give that struct a typename, for clarity.

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