Thanks Johannes,
I don't believe this function changes the value. It is the norm in the gphoto functions to accept a pointer as an argument for some reason.
That being said, its not working the way I imagine, so something strange could be happening in the gphoto function.
So I've taken your advice.
Things are now working on that front, having to typecast the strcpy from s_name seemed a bit weird:
strcpy(charkey,(char *)textValue->s_name);
without the cast the value never gets set.
Say Johannes, had a chance to consider my thread on pthreads?
Thanks, B.
never ever change the value of a symbol. they are constants. you will get crashes and everything.
if you have a function that wants to change strings, you have to use stings and not symbols. (convert a symbol to a char[]; modify it; call gensym() on the new string)
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