Access Violation? I'm not seeing why.

[SteveCRM]

char FileName[100];
		char ShortFileName[100];
		char todo[200];
		GetWindowText(ghWnd_File, FileName, 100);
		if(GetShortPathName(FileName, ShortFileName, 100) !=0) {
			strcat(todo, "open ");
			strcat(todo,  ShortFileName);
			strcat(todo, " type mpegvideo Alias mpeg");
			mciSendString (todo, 0, 0, 0);
		}

this gives me an access violation why!

[parksie]

I think it's because todo is an array rather than a pointer...a subtle but annoying difference I don't usually use strcat anyway, I much prefer sprintf

char FileName[100];
char ShortFileName[100];
char todo[200];
GetWindowText(ghWnd_File, FileName, 100);
if(GetShortPathName(FileName, ShortFileName, 100) !=0) {
	sprintf(todo, "open %s type mpegvideo Alias mpeg", ShortFileName);
	mciSendString (todo, 0, 0, 0);
}

I hope that works...

[SteveCRM]

Thanks again