Re: CFileDialog: "My Computer" not shows drives

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:33:38 -0700
Message-ID:
<uUxDfS7NKHA.4692@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
Yeah, the variable is just a name, but you're right, according to many
conventions the name is misnamed.

I wondered about the conversion too, but it appears OP is just using ANSI.
I wonder if something got fixed when rewriting the string (maybe some weird
char in the string that wasn't showing on the screen?)

Tom

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23G7Y226NKHA.220@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Tom Serface ha scritto:

That's strange, but glad you got it to work :o)


That's really strange... the only difference that I can spot between

static char hFilter[] = "jpg Files (*.jpg,*.jpeg)|*.jpg;*.jpeg|All Files
(*.*)|*.*||";

and

CString hFilter = "jpg Files (*.jpg,*.jpeg)|*.jpg;*.jpeg|All Files
(*.*)|*.*||";

is that on Unicode builds CString implicitly converts the ANSI string to
Unicode using CP_ACP (i.e. system default code page).

BTW: to the OP: the 'h' prefix for a char string or CString instance is
very unusual (the 'h' is used for handles, e.g. hFile, hDC, hWnd...)
better not using any prefix than a confusing one, or using some meaningufl
prefix (like 'sz' for raw C strings, or 'str' for CString).

Giovanni

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