Laurence Mee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:72983@palm-dev-forum... >
> It may be that he is not reading the debugger window correctly. On that the > contents of a char* variable are shown, not the actual value of the variable > itself. > You can check this in your AppStart by doing if (MyCharPtr == NULL) > MyIntVariable++; > He is probably seeing something like "yyyy" for the MyCharPtr value in the > debugger - which would be (in this case) the string starting at memory > location 0. 100 % Laurence..! I was reading the debugger incorrectly. I changed to View as Hex and the actual ptr value is 0x0000.. as expected. I apologise for being stupid.. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/