Re: CListCtrl unicode doesn't display korean characters correctly

From:
MrAsm <mrasm@usa.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:35:24 GMT
Message-ID:
<uss613lcdnjqsa591q20alof9117lrd8hd@4ax.com>
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:14:34 +0200, Dansk <dansk@laouilest.com> wrote:

Here is the code that gives the string to the ListCtrl
The korean string is in case 2.
The LoadString method gets it from the resources.


From your code, I take that you have an array
_DisplayedStringElements, that stores the data you display to the list
control. This array seems to store pointers to a data structure.
It would be interesting to see how this is defined.
Reading your code, it seems that it stores fields like _NumberStr
(string), _ID (string), _Value (string), _Number (unsigned long).

For example, I hope the string fields are defined as CString and not
raw arrays of TCHARs (or 'char's).

More below:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void CMyDlg::OnGetdispinfoList(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
{
    LV_DISPINFO* pDispInfo = (LV_DISPINFO*)pNMHDR;
    LV_ITEM* pItem= &(pDispInfo)->item;

    int iItemIndx = pItem->iItem;
    ASSERT(iItemIndx>=0 && ItemIndx<_DisplayedStringElements.GetSize());

***
OK with this check, but you kind of duplicated it also in case 2.

    if (pItem->mask & LVIF_TEXT) //valid text buffer?
    {
        switch(pItem->iSubItem){
        case 0: //fill in main text
            lstrcpy(pItem->pszText,
                _DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx]->_NumberStr);

***

This code is not robust, and it may be broken by buffer overruns.
You should forget about functions like lstrcpy & friends.
You should only use *safe* string functions, like the functions from
Safe String Library (strsafe.h).

In this case, I would use StringCchCopy. It protects you from buffer
overruns.

  StringCchCopy(
    pItem->pszText, // destination
    pItem->cchTextMax // destination buffer size in TCHARs
    _DisplayStringElements[iItemIndx]->_NumberStr // source
  );

From the description of LVITEM structure here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670569.aspx

you can read:

<cite>
NOTE: Never copy more than cchTextMax TCHARs?where cchTextMax
includes the terminating NULL?into pszText during an LVN_
notification, otherwise your program can fail.
</cite>

And you are processing an LVN_GETDISPINFO.

        case 1: //fill in sub item 1 text
            lstrcpy(pItem->pszText,
                _DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx]->_ID);

***

Again, you should not use lstrcpy.

        case 2: //fill in sub item 2 text
            {
                if(iItemIndx<=_DisplayedStringElements.GetSize() &&
_DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx])

***

I don't understand this.
You first checked iItemIndx at the beginning of the function.
So, why are you checking again?
Moreover, it seems to me that this second check has a bug: you should
substitute the <= with <
If array size is 10, only valid indexes are 0,1,2,3,...,9 (not 10! 10
is out-of-bounds).

Moreover, why do you put the "&& _DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx]"
??
Do you want to check for non-NULL pointers?
Maybe you should do:

  ASSERT( _DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx] != NULL );

                {
                    CString *Value =
&_DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx]->_Value;
                    if (Value->IsEmpty())
                    {
                        if (!LoadString(*Value,
_DisplayedStringElements[iItemIndx]->_Number))

***

I understand that this LoadString is neither Win32 ::LoadString, nor
you are using CString::LoadString...
So, there could be a bug in this function.
Could you post the code of your LoadString function?
Or at least the prototype...

You are passing a CString (not CString *) to LoadString.
Is the first LoadString parameter a *reference* to CString (CString
&)? Or is it just a CString? This could be a bug...

                    try {
                        if(Value->GetLength()>256)
                            lstrcpy(pItem->pszText,
Value->Left(256)+_T("..."));
                        else
                            lstrcpy(pItem->pszText, *Value);
                    } catch(...) {
                        lstrcpy(pItem->pszText, _T("--> Unexpected
error <--"));
                    }

***

Why this try/catch block here??
I see no need for it...

Also, I have suspects about the operator+ you used to concatenate
strings.
I would make the code more explicit and don't trust C++ copy
constructors, temporary objects, automatic casts, etc....

Something like this:

  if ( Value->GetLength() > 256 )
  {
      CString s = Value->Left(256);
      s += _T("...");

      StringCchCopy(
          pItem->pszText,
          pItem->cchTextMax,
          (LPCTSTR)s
      );
  }
  else
  {
      StringCchCopy(
          pItem->pszText,
          pItem->cchTextMax,
          (LPCTSTR)(*Value)
      );
  }

And this is how I initialize my ListCtrl named m_List

    // ListCtrl Font
    CFont *ListFont = m_List.GetFont();
    if(ListFont)
    {

***

I would not use the if, just an ASSERT().

  ASSERT( ListFont != NULL );

because I think that GetFont() is supposed to return a valid font...

        LOGFONT LogFont;
        ListFont->GetLogFont(&LogFont);
        lstrcpy(LogFont.lfFaceName, _T("Arial Unicode MS"));

***

Again, better avoiding lstrcpy...

  StringCbCopy(
    LogFont.lfFaceName,
    sizeof(LogFont.lfFaceName),
    _T("Arial Unicode MS")
  );

However, I don't understand very well your code...
You're trying to load the font "Arial Unicode MS" (I don't have this
on my system... is this a custom font?? Do you have this font on your
system or the system where the program will be deployed?).
If this fails, you're loading Arial.
Are the Korean characters available for Arial?
Or do exist Korean-specific fonts?
Maybe "MS Mincho" font contains Korean characters?
Or you can use this fonts from here:

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/korean.html

MrAsm

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