Simple question: How come, in DDraw, when I declare this:

LPDIRECTDRAW lpDD;

It makes lpDD a pointer?! What gives? Am I overlooking a special C programming feature (because of my lack of, uh, experience) or is "Windows Weirdness"? Dare wa neko o koroshiteimasuka? (Ha! Learn Nihongo!)

LPDIRECTDRAW is a typedef for DIRECTDRAW*

No, that''s just the way it''s declared.

You can say this:

typedef struct {
int x, y, z;
} MYSTRUCT, *LPMYSTRUCT;

Then you can declare a structure like this:

MYSTRUCT MyStruct;

And a Pointer to a MYSTRUCT like this:

LPMYSTRUCT lpMyStruct; // same as MYSTRUCT* lpMyStruct;

Hope that helps..
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Yeah, that helped. I always wondered why you would use typedef''s instead of just declaring a struct. Maybe that''s not the singular reason, but I understand now.

Thanks!

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