At 01:26 AM 1/08/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>This is the use of the procedure in Delphi...there apparently is no
>C++ equivalent to Assigned. Translating everything else in C++ but
>that leads to an AV...what next?

In Pascal, Assigned() is a Boolean function that you can apply to anything,
to determine whether that "thing" has an address in memory.

From the VCL help:
Use Assigned to determine whether the pointer or procedure referenced by P
is nil. P must be a variable reference of a pointer or procedural type.
Assigned(P) corresponds to the test P<> nil for a pointer variable, and @P
<> nil for a procedural variable.

Assigned returns False if P is nil, True otherwise.

Maybe you're bumping into a pointer problem in C++?

Helen