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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Help with GRX GrLineOption
Date: 5 Apr 2004 10:11:09 GMT
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Chris <chris_tebbe AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> What is the proper way to use the GrLineOption?

In case of doubt: the one shown in the GRX docs.

> Snippet of GrTest.cc

>   GrLineOption opt = {GrWHite(), 1, 2, "\x06\x04"};

This should work:
	
	unsigned char pattern[] = { 6, 4};
	GrLineOption opt = {GRWhite(), 1, 2, pattern};

Note that I replaced the string literal with an aggregate initializer.
Initializing what is going to be treated as an array of numbers by a
string using '\x..' notation all the way through is misleading.

>   "Invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'unsigned char *'."

The basic problem is that the struct field is a pointer to char, 
but a string literal is effectively 'const'.  

A C compiler usually wouldn't have bothered about this as long as the
code using this struct doesn't actually modify the data stored in the
pattern array, but you're compiling this as C++, which has
considerably stricter rules about implicit pointer casts, so you get
an error.

C++ may even offer some way of avoiding the explicit named variable
"pattern" by creating an anonymous object on the spot --- Java does.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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