Global or pointer in managed C++ for customized class

Question

My project has both managed & unmanaged code. I wrote a class cIVR in managed code, while defining it in an unmanaged cpp file. The project has been working fine for some time. Now I need to call a member function of one of objects in array 'arrChannels' from another function in the same file.

During array definition it's not allowing me to declare as static due to managed code, so I want to pass a reference to my array in a global pointer so I can access member function throughout the file.

Kindly help, I use several code from Google but have been unsuccessful. I am using .Net 2008.

main() {

  array<cIVR^>^ arrChannels = gcnew array<cIVR^>(num_devices); //MAXCHAN
    for(int i=0; i< num_devices; i++){   //MAXCHAN
        arrChannels[i] = gcnew cIVR();

}



////I want some thing like ->
  cIVR *ch; //global
  ch =  arrChannels; //last in above code

func2(int index){

  ch[index]->setNumber("123");  

}

Answer 1

Aside from the 'having a global is generally not a good idea issue', the place to correctly initialise ch would be inside main() after you created the array.

I'd also strongly recommend using the correct prototypes for the functions that you're using, for example:

int main()

and

void func2(int index)