CompuServe Thread

Greetings! There are a lot of complaints that Visual Basic does not support "pointers" or dynamic access to memory. In fact VB uses pointers extensively internally. I have uploaded VBPTR.ZIP which contains a DLL that has two functions relating to pointers. One will take a pointer and return a VB string. This is useful if a DLL function retruns an LPSTR and you want to convert it to a VB string. You can also use this function to create things like MKI$ and BSAVE etc. The other function is a generic memory copier. This will allow you to create things like CVI, BLOAD, etc., as well as support huge arrays without the use of the 20k DLL from MS. I wrote this because I needed a way to walk through a NULL delimited string array, similar to the environment table. The zip includes an example of doing this. Let me know if you have questions! Enjoy! -=- Jonathan There are 2 Replies.