Re: LNK 2001 error

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"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au>

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Date:

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:57:53 +1100

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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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"Stick" <Stick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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static wchar_t m_MsgText[23]; // Warning messages
wstring ScratchPad::GetMsgText(){ return m_MsgText; }

GetMsgText should return a pointer to wstring, not a wstring, i.e.,
it should be:

wstring * ScratchPad::GetMsgText(){ return m_MsgText; }

Considering that m_MsgText is a wchar_t[], not a wstring or wstring*,
how is this supposed to work? Where is the wstring instance coming
from whose address GetMsgText purports to return?

Quite right. The first post in this thread concerned a wstring data member.
I failed to register accurately that this had switched to a wchar_t array
and thought it was a wstring array. My bad.

That being the case, the code should work provided the static data members
are appropriately defined (with the wstring constructor creating from the
wchar_t array the wstring object returned by the function).

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John Carson