I'm having a few probs, I think it may have to do with converting?

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Hi, I'm kinda new to the C++ community and I'm having a problem. A good friend left me some closed source code, and put a lot of hard work into it. He's moving to Russia, so he's all done with the project.

Now let me tell you one thing, this guy is a literal genious, so I doubt the code has as many errors as MSVC++ states it has. Friend tell me that it may be because he used a different compiler, or the language is different, I dont know. But any help would be appreciated.

Heres a sample error:

Compiling...
graysvr.cpp
c:\program files\icq\received files\menace\common\cscriptobj.h(101) : error C2664: 'wvsprintfA' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char' to 'char *'
Conversion from integral type to pointer type requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
c:\program files\icq\received files\menace\common\cscriptobj.h(102) : error C2664: 'SysMessage' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char' to 'const char *'
Conversion from integral type to pointer type requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast


Basically, heres the code portion:

class CTextConsole
{
// A base class for any class that can act like a console and issue commands.
// CClient, CChar, CServer, CFileConsole
protected:
int OnConsoleKey( CGString & sText, TCHAR nChar, bool fEcho );
public:
// What privs do i have ?
virtual CAccountRef GetAccount() const
{
return NULL;
}
virtual PLEVEL_TYPE GetPrivLevel() const = 0;
virtual LPCTSTR GetName() const = 0; // ( every object must have at least a type name )
virtual CChar * GetChar() const; // are we also a CChar ? dynamic_cast ?

virtual void SysMessage( LPCTSTR pszMessage, WORD wHue = 0 ) const = 0; // Feed back message.
int VSysMessage( LPCTSTR pszFormat, va_list args ) const
{
TCHAR szTemp;
size_t ilen = vsprintf( szTemp, pszFormat, args );
SysMessage( szTemp );
return( ilen );
}
int _cdecl SysMessagef( LPCTSTR pszFormat, ... ) const
{
va_list vargs;
va_start( vargs, pszFormat );
int iRet = VSysMessage( pszFormat, vargs );
va_end( vargs );
return( iRet );
}
};






This error really gets me too:

c:\program files\icq\received files\menace\graysvr\graysvr.cpp(92) : error C2078: too many initializers


It looks like this in the code:

LPCTSTR const g_Stat_Name = // not sorted obviously.
{
"STR",
"INT",
"DEX",
"KARMA",
"FAME",

// "OSTR",
// "OINT",
// "ODEX",
// "MAXHITS",
// "MAXMANA",
// "MAXSTAM",
};

Where as INT is intellegence, (for a game emulator)
Any help in this would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks.

 

[IonelBurtan]

1. First problem:
Change the line:
size_t ilen = vsprintf( szTemp, pszFormat, args );

into

size_t ilen = vsprintf( &szTemp, pszFormat, args );

2.Second problem:
This comes from a bigger number of initializers than the number of objects to be initialized.

g_Stat_Name -is probablty declared as having a size smaller than 5, and you have 5 elements to initialize. Also try to take out the coments from the initialization , the compiler might interpret thm as a suplemenary initializer because of the last commas.

Hope this helps,
s-)

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[Nosferatu]

The problem you have seems to me to be the array declaration, which is merely a pure string, rather than an array of strings.

So, try to change the declaration to

 LPCTSTR const g_Stat_Name[] =  {// the rest of the code

And one other thing. TCHAR is a Windows thing, meaning that the actual output of the compiler depends on some defined symbols fed to it (_UNICODE, for ex.). That means that if you are in the US, TCHAR will most probably be an 8 bit ASCII character, but if wou are in Japan, could be a 16 bit Unicode.

Anyway, the idea is the your variable szTemp is a CHARACTER, not a string! And SysMessage function requires a string, so you might want to say

 TCHAR * szTemp;

and allocate and deallocate memory for it, or merely
say

TCHAR szTemp[100]

or something like that.

Hope this helps.

P.S. Another thing is an extra comma in the initializer list of the g_stat_name variable, just before the comments start.
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