I've been programming in VB.NET for most of my very programming career. I have a C++ project provided to me, which I need to make a few modifications, and I am feeling hopelessly lost and confused.
It is a Visual Studio 2008 MFC project in C++.
an output variable has been defined:
char szout[900];
This line below, is used to append values to the output variable before output:
strcpy(szout, "TextHere")
So one of the many examples from searching, that i have tried, was to include at the top:
#include <windows.h>
And then for my code:
SYSTEMTIME st;
GetSystemTime(&st);
char myDate[20] = st;
CT2CA outputDate(myDate);
strcat(szout, outputDate);
For some reason the variables appended on to szout must be of type CT2CA, which i'm not really sure what this is either.
But then I get the following errors on the second and third line (char myDate...etc...) and (CT2CA output....etc....)
error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'SYSTEMTIME' to 'char [20]'
error C2664: 'ATL::CW2AEX<>::CW2AEX(LPCWSTR) throw(...)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char [20]' to 'LPCWSTR'
So I'll clarify, I am a complete novice with this, and would appreciate any and all help.
Thank you,