I was having a problem. I''m making a D3D program which exports the selected device, resolution, and device description to a file. I can''t write the pointers to file, so I''ve got to convert them into normal objects. For example, how would you convert a GUID** to GUID, and LPSTR or char* to a char[40]? Any help would be greatly apreciated. -Doddler

Assuming that you''re trying to write the data to a file what you really need is an address of the data and the size of the data. For a GUID ** (say GUID ** a) the address would be *a, and the size would be sizeof(GUID) (32 bytes if I remember correctly). For a LPSTR str or a char * str the address is the str variable, and the size of the data is strlen(str). This is important because the string length can be greater than 40 characters.