Re: ustring to char*

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

remco cats hccnet nl wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i have a question i want to use the data of the Gtkmm::entry.
> I know this data is ustring but i want it in char* so my API can use it.
>
> the following code i already tried.
>
> termBox.insertLine(0, "MESG: ", msgEntry.get_text());
> string str = ("msg;dftxt;" + msgEntry.get_text().raw());
> cout << str;
> This works for the terminal but i doesn't work for my API. Is there a way to convert the string to char*.
>
> I also tried:
> termBox.insertLine(1, "QSTN: ", msgEntry.get_text());
> char* str;
> strcpy(str, msgEntry.get_text().c_str()); 
> rfcomm_write(mc3t_bt_dev, str);
> It will compile but when i want to use it it wil generate the following error:
> Program has been terminated receiving signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
> Press the Enter key to close this terminal ...
>
> can somebody help me with this problem
>
> greating remco
>
>
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Using the character pointer do the following code:

char *str = g_strdup((char *)msgEntry.get_text().c_str());
rfcomm_write(mc3t_bt_dev, str);
g_free((void *)str);

Bob Caryl