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Re: Retrieving Address info from GetAdaptersInfo

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From: Maurice Anderson
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:49
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Hello Remy:

> Did you allocate pinfo before passing it to GetAdaptersInfo()?"
Yes I did as : pinfo = NULL;

I tried the ARRAYOFCONST macro and the compiler errors went away, however, I
don't get any data when I do a:
ShowMessage(m_macaddress);

thannx


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Maurice Anderson" <mauriceanderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3f977b4f@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Please help.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > GetAdaptersInfo(pinfo,&len);
>
> Did you allocate pinfo before passing it to GetAdaptersInfo()?  If not,
then
> you are using an uninitialized pointer, and your code will crash at
runtime.
>
> > Using the above code, I get a compiler error that says:
> >  Type mismatch in parameter 'args'(wanted 'const TVarRec*,
> > got 'unsigned char')
>
> Format() expects an array of TVarRec, but you are not passing such an
array
> at all.  Have a look at the ARRAYOFCONST maco, ie:
>
>     m_macaddress.Format("%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X",
>         ARRAYOFCONST(( (int)pinfo->Address[0], (int)pinfo->Address[1],
>                     (int)pinfo->Address[2], (int)pinfo->Address[3],
>                     (int)pinfo->Address[4], (int)pinfo->Address[5] )) );
>
>
> Gambit
>
>
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