Force a program to use LoadStringA instead of LoadStringW ?

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Hi! I'm reworking on an old project(not started by me). I'm replacing the old dialog with a frame, so that I can put a ribbon instead of the menubar(that's the task). So... The original project doesn't work with Unicode, but in the frame's OnCreate method I need widechar strings for this fragment to work correctly:

    CString strTitlePane1;
CString strTitlePane2;
bNameValid = strTitlePane1.LoadString(IDS_STATUS_PANE1);
ASSERT(bNameValid); //here I get a runtime error
bNameValid = strTitlePane2.LoadString(IDS_STATUS_PANE2);
ASSERT(bNameValid);

LoadString is defined as LoadStringA since the project works with ANSI and this mustn't be changed globally. Somebody? :/

P.S. I'm still not quite sure if this is exactly the problem :/

Posted 3-Dec-13 0:21am

StoyanovZ

Updated 3-Dec-13 0:27am

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Solution 3

I would suggest that you convert the part that does not works presently to works in Unicode.

We are almost in 2014 so you are more than 10 years late to convert your application to Unicode. In 2000's, it was already possible to write Unicode program on Win 9x using Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems.

I guess that it is a very old application as application created after around year 2000 has essentially not reason to have been created in ANSI.

In my opinion, either you only make bug fixes (thus no new ribbon) and keep ANSI code or you make the application modern and convert it to Unicode.

If the application uses file then it should convert old ANSI file to Unicode either at opening or when required. It might make sense to use UTF-8 for file encoding as it is typically smaller.

Posted 3-Dec-13 17:57pm

Philippe Mori

Solution 4

I simply had forgotten to describe the needed items in the .rc file :D

Posted 4-Dec-13 3:16am

StoyanovZ

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Albert Holguin 5-Dec-13 16:30pm

Happens...

Solution 2

[See this post]
You can have problem with enconding charset.

Posted 3-Dec-13 4:05am

theafien

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StoyanovZ 3-Dec-13 12:07pm

Thanks! I'll try this tomorow(I'm on another computer now)

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KarstenK · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-03T00:49:00

Solution 1

i do that this way:

CStringW strTitlePane2;
bNameValid = strTitlePane1.LoadStringW(IDS_STATUS_PANE1)

look out for the two "W" in the code :-O

or is the problem an invalid strind id of IDS_STATUS_PANE1 ???

Posted 3-Dec-13 0:49am

KarstenK

Updated 3-Dec-13 0:51am

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StoyanovZ 3-Dec-13 12:04pm

Oh, right, I haven't tried it this way yet :D By the way, I'm starting to thing more and more that it has nothing to do with it, because anyway LoadString is BOOL. BUT IDS_STATUS_PANE1 is defined(I think it's sort of 40235), so it does exist... I'm not quite sure what's going on here :/

StoyanovZ 3-Dec-13 12:08pm

Now that I think of it again... Is resource.h the only place we give numbers to the IDs?

KarstenK 4-Dec-13 4:48am

change the id AND the number to test it - i think this id comes from some MS header :-O