I am not sure whether my code is readable, but anyway - the problem 
is the compiler's complaint of the lack of an LVAlue on the line marked with 
asterisks ******* below.
        The code is attempting to set up a "live" display of the time on a 
dialog (SprTimingEditor). In the particular piece of code cited I am 
attempting to get at a TransferStruct member (TimeStruct) in the TApplication 
object so that I can set it's values. And then (using tdSetData) set the 
dialog values. In my view I have a valid pointer to the current application 
instance (theApp) and TimeDate is a valid member of TMyApp which should be 
automatically constructed when it's class (TMyApp) is constructed -Sooo -   
theApp->TimeDate.sec   should be a valid LValue. |-(
static TMyApp*  theApp = 0;
struct TimeStruct   {
        TimeStruct();
        char day[3];
        char month[3];
        char year[5];
        char hour[3];
        char min[3];
        char sec[3];
        };
TimeStruct::TimeStruct()
{
        year[0] = 0;
        day[0] = 0;
        month[0] = 0;
        hour[0] = 0;
        min[0] = 0;
        sec[0] = 0;
}
class TMyApp : public TApplication {
  public:
        TMyApp();
        TMyApp* App;
        TimeStruct  TimeDate;
  protected:
         TMyApp* GetAppPtr(){return theApp;}
};
TMyApp::TMyApp()
{
        memset(&TimeDate, 0, sizeof TimeDate);
}
void TMyApp::CmTiming()
{
  SprTimingEditor(GetMainWindow(), DIALOG_1, TimeDate, 
etAppPtr()).Execute();
}
SprTimingEditor::SprTimingEditor(TWindow* parent, TResID id,
                                  TimeStruct& TimeDate, TMyApp* AppPtr):
                                  TDialog(parent, id), TWindow (parent) {
        ...
        continueTime = 1;
        TransferBuffer = (void far*)&TimeDate;
}
void
SprTimingEditor::SetUpWindow()
{
        TDialog::SetUpWindow();
        SetTime();
}
void
SprTimingEditor::SetTime()
{
        while (continueTime == 1)
        {
          TTime* TimePtr = new TTime();
*******   theApp->TimeDate.sec = (int)TimePtr->Second();*** LValue needed 
***
          TransferData(tdSetData);
          delete TimePtr;   //I think this deletes the TTime object
        }
}
int OwlMain(int, char* [])
{
        TMyApp * App = new TMyApp;
        int result;
        theApp = App;
        result = App->Run();
        return result;
}
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