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Reak
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 Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: Unicode question |
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Hey,
I'm coding a pointless program atm and I stuck.
I'm using
| Code: | LPTSTR name;
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SetWindowText(h, name); |
But to get the name I'm using cin >>. But it's not working.
Any suggestions? |
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systat
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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u can try something like this:
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string name;
SetWindowText(h,LPTSTR(name));
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I though you just use L.
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Reak
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
I already tried this with "char name;" this will just do nothing and close the application then.
With string it says "Can't convert string to LPTSTR" or so.
| HornyAZNBoy wrote: | | I though you just use L. |
Ye me too. But how would you do that with variables? L(name) does not work.
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lurc
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| systat wrote: | u can try something like this:
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string name;
SetWindowText(h,LPTSTR(name));
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Not how you do it in C++
it would be "SetWindowText( hWnd, (LPTSTR)name );
but i doubt that would work.
use TCHAR's?
#include <tchar.h>
TCHAR Name[MAX_PATH];
std::cin >> Name;
SetWindowText( hWnd, Name );
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Edit: LOL 666 post's 
| HornyAZNBoy wrote: | | I though you just use L. |
Thats defining a string as unicode.
E.g. LPTSTR Name = L"Kyle";
LPTSTR = LPWSTR if UNICODE charecter set is in place. else LPTSTR is defined as LPSTR (ASCII)
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Reak
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks lurc, but this didn't work either  |
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lurc
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Works
| Code: | #include <tchar.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
TCHAR Name[MAX_PATH];
int main( int argc, char* argv )
{
wprintf( L"Choose a name!\n" );
wscanf( L"%s", &Name );
wprintf( L"Your Name is %s", Name );
// Get Your hWnd, whatever.
hWnd = FindWindow( L"w/e class name or", L"w/e window name" );
SetWindowText( hWnd, Name );
std::cin.sync();
std::cin.ignore();
return 0;
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systat
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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This works 100% for me, i am using VS 2008, set project setting to use multibyte set.
| Code: | char *ZZZ="Haha";
HWND hwnd=FindWindow(0,"Untitled - Notepad");
SetWindowText(hwnd,LPCSTR(ZZZ)); |
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Reak
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
Well the problem wasn't the USING of the variable, it was how to set the variable.
I tried lurc's version with "cin >> name", it didn't work.
But
| Code: | | wscanf( L"%s", &Name ); |
Works, thanks |
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lurc
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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cin only works for ASCII im pretty sure...
so tchar has all the input/output precedures mapped out with the prefix _t or w that allows you to use old input/output functions but with unicode support.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:08 am Post subject: |
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You can convert the 'string' to a char array using something like this:
strTestString.c_str();
For example:
| Code: | #include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string strWindowName;
printf( "Enter your window name: " );
scanf( "%s", strWindowName.c_str() );
HWND hWnd = FindWindow( "notepad", NULL );
SetWindowText( hWnd, strWindowName.c_str() );
std::cin.sync();
std::cin.ignore();
return 0;
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