How to convert c8* to wchar_t* and inverse

[JiB-z]

(I'm french so if my english...)
I want get the path of one map which is in a listbox so I type this :

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          pathMap = lst_Map->getListItem(lst_Map->getSelected());

After, I want use this path to load the map :

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         mesh_Map = Smgr->getMesh(pathMap);

This is the problem "getMesh()" take a c8* argument and I have a wchar_t*.
What is the fonction for convert c8* to wchar_t* ? (perhaps like wcstombs()).

[Tyn]

Also, why do none of the Irrlicht functions take the core string class for filenames? They all take c8* which doesn't really make sense since the XML format dumps the info in stringc.

[Mercior]

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007 ... towcs.html

and

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007 ... tombs.html

You can pass char *'s to functions that ask for a c8 *.

[JiB-z]

Ok big thanks

[Dragon7]

For wchar I use .c_str() of stringw in the irrlicht api, and to construct it, you could use it's overloaded member?