NewState parameter

[markm]

this is probably because i'm only a c++ novice, but i'm confused on the NewState parameter. the c++ plug-in template produces this prototype:

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int WINAPI DesignTimeEdit(
        int Window,
        const char* State,
        const char* NewState
);

the docs say to copy my buffer to NewState on the second call, but how does one modify a const? i was only able to make this work by modifying the def to:

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int WINAPI DesignTimeEdit(
        int Window,
        const char* State,
        char* NewState
);

which works fine... but i was curious how you are able to make it work with the prototype provided... i asked some more knowledge programmers and they didn't understand it either so please enlighten us!

[sinan]

This is certainly a bug in the template generated code. Thank you for pointing this out. I will have this corrected immediately. Your revised declaration is correct.

[Guest]

Well at least that means I'm not as crazy as previously thought. It's also worth pointing out that the same declaration exists in the documentation (which is why I didn't think it was a mistake to begin with).

Thanks for the quick response!

[sinan]

Yes, both the documentation and the template project were wrong. Both have been fixed. Thanks for pointing this out