pointers

[XxWalKaxX]

ok ive watched the lessons on pointers a couple times and i understand about they work as far as pointing to particular address in mem. im just get confused when it comes to actually using them

[codinitup]

I would recommend that the best solution is to watch the videos again until you get pointers, or you can go to this website "Learncpp.com" and look to chapter 6, which looks at pointers directly. However I must say that it teaches pointers in a console project, maybe you can look at what the pointers do and then transfer the concept over to the graphical interface. The concept will remain the same, the only difference is the application of how it is used.

[npissoawsome]

ok ive watched the lessons on pointers a couple times and i understand about they work as far as pointing to particular address in mem. im just get confused when it comes to actually using them

well if I wanted to change the number of 3 vars I could write a function called

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void ChangeVar(*v1, *v2, *v3, num)
{
     *v1 = num;
     *v2 = num;
     *v3 = num;
}

than I could have some code

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int num1 = 0;
int num2 = 5;
int num3 = 3;
ChangeVar(&num1, &num2, &num3, 9);
cout << "Numbers are \nnum1: " << num1 << "\nnum2: " << num2 << "\nnum3: " << num3 << endl;

the output would be

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Numbers are
num1: 9
num2: 9
num3: 9

now this is a useless example, but it shows what they can be used for