Re: MS assumes everything is Unicode with VS 2008?

From:

mike.frith@gmail.com

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT)

Message-ID:

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An important item I left out was that I'm using version 1 of the
richeditctrl and it's not unicode so the following code worked even
when Unicode is defined:

(this is vs 2003)
CString CRichEditCtrl::GetSelText() const
{
    ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd));
    CHARRANGE cr;
    cr.cpMin = cr.cpMax = 0;
    ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_EXGETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)&cr);
    LPSTR lpsz = (char*)_alloca((cr.cpMax - cr.cpMin + 1)*2);
    lpsz[0] = NULL;
    ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_GETSELTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)lpsz);
    return CString(lpsz);
}

at 2008 we have:

CString CRichEditCtrl::GetSelText() const
{
    ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd));
    CHARRANGE cr;
    cr.cpMin = cr.cpMax = 0;
    ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_EXGETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)&cr);
    CString strText;
    LPTSTR lpsz=strText.GetBufferSetLength((cr.cpMax - cr.cpMin + 1) *
sizeof(TCHAR));
    lpsz[0] = NULL;
    ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_GETSELTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)lpsz);
    strText.ReleaseBuffer();
    return CString(strText);
}

Yes I can translate the string back to LPSTR but is that the best
solution, it's definitely the quickest fix. Upgrading the control to
version 2 or 3 is going to add some work as I do a lot of text
formatting.

Mike

On Jul 3, 12:02 pm, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

No, it was ALWAYS defined to return an LPTSTR. If you ever assumed it =

was an LPSTR, you

made a coding error, so it is no surprise that things break. It is imp=

ortant to code in

terms of the types that exist, not the types you *think* exist. Except=

in very rare and

exotic conditions, it was ALWAYS an error to assume that LPSTR made sense=

You can lobotomize the code and force it to be non-Unicode, but this is a=

retrograde

change and should not be done. Better to bring your code up to modern =

standards (or

modern as of 1992, when Win32 was released)
=

joe

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:36:16 -0700 (PDT), mike.fr...@gmail.com wrote:

Any idea why, with VS 2008, MS changed CRichEditCtrl::GetSelText() to
return an LPTSTR instead of LPSTR? This is a breaking change for me,
but not the only one.

Thanks
Mike

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