JB> I think you need to post an example with more flesh.

Therein lies a problem.  The code is hundreds of lines long and it's 
encased in a Windows program.  Yes, I'm aware that I could CSPLIT it and 
post it in several parts but sheesh, I'm convinced that there's got to 
be a "simple" solution.

The situation is that I wish to create the object in a member function.  
Then I need to manipulate the data in an unrelated class WITHOUT 
creating a new object in that unrelated class.  I thought that I could 
succeed by passing pointers to the original class, but...

JB> I find haviong two different compiilers handy as I can get a second
JB> opinion :)

An excellent idea.

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