Re: Populating CString in Win32 dll interface that accepts LPCTSTR
Tough to tell without seeing where the string ends up, but is the DLL also
compiled for Unicode? If not, if you assign it to another CString it will
convert it and if the code page is not correct you will end up with a bad
conversion. I can't really tell from the code you posted what you are
trying to do. If you pass a CString object to a function that expects a
LPCTSTR you don't have to use GetBuffer()... the cast is done automatically
for you by CString. You don't even really need to pass in a buffer size
since you are using a constant string, so you'd have to assign it to
something else to modify it anyway.
Tom
"divya_rathore_@gmail.com" <divyarathore@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I have a Win32 dll interface:
typedef bool (__cdecl *TITLEPTR)(LPCTSTR);
and I want a string to be populated by calling this inside a UNICODE
enabled MFC App (VS2008):
CString str;
if (!(*pfn3)( str.GetBuffer(256)) )
{
MessageBox(_T("Some Problemo!"));
}
..All I am getting in str is jumbled characters (ANSI?).
How can I get the string str populated properly? I am clearly missing
some Unicode concepts here.
warm regards,
Divya Rathore
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