C struct conversion question

[Bern Ertl]

Sorry for the basic question here folks. It's been a while and wheels are turning slowly this morning.

I'm translating a header file and have the following structure:

'typedef struct ss_ct_createeditorcontrol_args
'{
'   LPTSTR lpszName;   // in: name of custom celltype
'   HWND   hWndSpread; // in: HWND of Spread control
'   long   lStyle;     // in: style for custom celltype
'   int    CtrlId;     // in: Value to use for control id
'   HWND   hWndEditor; // out: HWND of editor control
'} SS_CT_CREATEEDITORCONTROL_ARGS, FAR *LPSS_CT_CREATEEDITORCONTROL_ARGS;

I'm wondering how best to handle the first field in the corresponding PB TYPE declaration. Should I define lpszName as a DWORD or would an ASCIIZ PTR work?

[Michael Mattias]

Personally I'd go with ASCIIZ PTR.

But you may use whatever you want, as long as the VALUE of that member ( a 32-bit integer) represents the address of a null-terminated string and you make your assignments in a manner consistent with your datatype choice.

[Kev Peel]

ASCIIZ PTR is correct, DWORD or LONG could also be used also but it depends whether you will be referencing the string content of the pointer (@lpszName) after assignment, in which case you'd need ASCIIZ PTR.