LPCWSTR - Pointer to const wchar_t string
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LPCWSTR ERROR C++ argument of type is incompatible with parameter of type
#include
#include
#include "sharedmemory.h"
#pragma comment (lib, "ws2_32.lib")
using namespace std;
#define MAP_OBJECT_NAME "$pcars2$"
void main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
HANDLE fileHandle =…
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Anybody know a non-ascii encoding?
'1' use two bytes 20 and 0;
'2' use two bytes 21 and 0;
'a' use two bytes 68 and 0;
'b' use two bytes 69 and 0;
I'm hook func ExtTextOutW from GDI32.dll(windowsapi) ,and read from str(unsigned char);
such as abc123... while got:68 0 69 0 70 0 20 0…
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LPCWSTR to char* and vice versa
I'm working on a simple project with DirectX9. I'm having a little snag with some conversion of data types, and I've done some research, but haven't found anything particularly useful. Let's start with the code:
LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 LoadSurface(char…
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CGO: Convert between LPCWSTR and string
I'm writing CGO bindings for a library which uses LPCWSTR for all of its string types. How do I convert from C.LPCWSTR to string and vice-versa?
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Visual Studio 2015 WinAPI error on MessageBox
I created a basic Windows C++ application in Visual Studio 2015 and I have a few errors:
#include
#include
#include
#include
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR…
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Am I correctly pointing a PCWSTR to a string literal?
I'm a bit rusty with C++ so I'm looking for help with a string pointer question.
First, let's consider some pointer basics with an integer:
void SetBob(int* pBob)
{
*pBob = 5;
}
int main(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
int bob = 0;
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Check if file existing or not in c
prgchDirPath is char pointer. But expected is LPCWSTR.
How to change this?
prgchDirPath is a directory path. File is not existed.
But I want to make sure if directory/path exists or not.
Can the API below helps me? if yes, how?
unsigned char…
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C++ lpcwstr to wstring
I would like to convert a LPCWSTR to wstring in C++ (VS 2010).
I want to use this in OutputDebugStringW().
Thank you.
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store a variable that holds user input data in sapi5 speak function
I am developing an application that uses the Microsoft SAPI5 speech engine. However, I have hit a wall. I've been trying to use the data from the variable that stores the input from the user so the TTS engine can repeat it. But the sapi5 speech…
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Wsutil.exe (Native Web Services Compiler): WCHAR* vs LPCWSTR for xsd:string type
Is there a good reason for the native web services compiler to generate a WCHAR * for an xsd:string vs a const wchar_t* (or LPCWSTR in short)?
The reason I state this question is that ours is a native c++ application which has std::wstrings…
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How convert LPCWSTR to wchar_t*?
I require to convert a LPCWSTR data to wchar_t*. I tried a bunch of methods, and some work, but when I try to get their code page, they are showing different values.
Code overview:
std::string ChineseCharacter(LPCWSTR Data) //Data value: "丂\n"
{
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Why do I get "argument of type "LPCSTR" is incompatible with parameter of type "LPCWSTR" error when code compiles fine?
I am working on the following function:
int initSerialPort(HANDLE* hSerialPort, LPCSTR portName){
*hSerialPort = CreateFile(
portName,
GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
0,
0,
OPEN_EXISTING,
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user16541120
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I am getting this error message - a value of type "const char *" cannot be assigned to an entity of type"LPCWSTR"
These are the lines of code that are causing the error:
WndClass.lpszClassName = "WinProg";
and
hWindow = CreateWindow("WinProg", "Window", WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, 0, 0, 400, 400, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
I don't know how to "fix" this…
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Converting LPCSTR to LPCWSTR in C++, ATL not available
Before I start,
Please do understand that this question is not a duplicate. There are questions out there with the same header :
Convert LPCSTR to LPCWSTR
However, I did some research before asking this question and came across ATL or Active…
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C++ path and file management with Regex
Does anybody knows why it is not extracting the mp3 from the path.
szFile is a complete path to the file.
Is there a more secure way to convert the data type ?
I am new to coding in C++ and I do not know hot to manage well the data types conversion,…
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