Irrlicht Engine

Well, my problem is simpel. I have created an edit Box and want to read it out using the event handler.

The method "getText" returns a "const wchar_t *". And I have never really come across Unicode. So what exactly is wchar_t? Does it sort off replace the string variable? Or is it a kind of char replacement?

Or to put in in another way: Does this store the whole Text of my Inputfield into cXSize?

Second problem: How would i convert a wchar_t to an integer / long? I dont quite get the hng out of wcstol. Or is there an easier function?

do it like this
int i = atoi(stringc(editFieldX->getText()).c_str()); //converts to int
float i = atof(stringc(editFieldX->getText()).c_str()); //converts to float

Where do I take that stringc from?

i don't know
maybe <string.h> or <stdio.h> or <conio.h> or <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>
but i really don't remember

Not sure if we are talking apart.

stringc seemst so be a class or struct. So it should probably be initialized somewhere or am I mistaken? A quick google for "stringc c++ header" didn't quite bring satisfieng results

stringc is just a static function just like printf or scanf.......do u even have any clue about c++?

Well, doesn't seem so ...

But:
Google can't tell me what stringc is, the MSDN doesn't have any kind of entry about stringc, cppreference.com doesn't know a function called stringc etc etc

And my compiler gives me the following error: I admit I dont really understand your way of parsing the edit box. I can only tell that a simple copy paste does not quite work ...

Edit: And i tried all your header proposals ...

try:

#include <string>

...

(whatever is a char* that you want to convert the text to) = std::string(stringw(editFieldX->getText()).c_str()).c_str();

its ugly but it works.

Sudi wrote:stringc is just a static function just like printf or scanf.......do u even have any clue about c++?

Do you have
stringc is a Irrlicht-builtin class, better to be used as core::stringc. What you're proposing here is not some static function but a class constructor invocation. You're building an anonymous object which provides a c_str method to convert its contents to a char*. So care for your own business and learn c++
BTW: It's included in irrString.h

I already said i didn't know where it came from....

Yes, true. But you should try to say it without the attitude of the almighty when not being able to recognize the simplest C++ structure. If you don't know C++ you should not discredit others for it.

Yeah yeah i know.....but i simply missed it......anyways lets stop this.

You should never discredit anyone ever...

Unless you are a Dark Overlord such as myself (which you are not since I'm the only one assigned to this sector/dimension) OR

They are a gently caress-tard OR

You have signed written permission from a doctor.





or you're just an arse hole