String problem

[chinanzio]

hello , i've got a problem , i would like to do this :

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char Name[] = "Node01";
IGUIEditBox* EditBox = addEditBox(...);
EditBox->setText(Name);

of course this does not work , the question is , what can i do ?
wchar_t* to char* conversion ? , how is done it ?


my english !!!

[Sylence]

you could forget the char[] and use irrlicht's string class instead.

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core::stringw Name = "Node01";
EditBox->setText(Name.c_str());

[Nadro]

You can easy convert char* to wchar_t* eg.

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char* Name = "NPC_Name";
int NameSize = strlen(Name);

wchar_t *Name_t = new wchar_t[NameSize+1]; // You have to create new wchar_t with size of Your char*

for (int i=0; i<=NameSize; i++)
{
if (Name[i] == 'ą') Name_t[i] = L'ą'; // for multibyte signs eg. Ą, Ź etc. You have to add multibyte support for Your project
Name_t[i] = Name[i]; // for all standard signs eg. A,B,c,d etc.
}

IGUIEditBox* EditBox = addEditBox(...);
EditBox->setText(Name_t);

delete[] Name_t; You have to free memory!

With this trick You can easy use char* and std::string after convert it to char* by .c_str()!

[Acki]

well, you can also reinvent the wheel !!!

If you don't want to use the string class, you can use this functions for converting (also a search on the forum discoveres this):

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// convert from char* to wchar_t* 
mbstowcs(wchar_t*, const char*, size_t);

// convert from wchar_t* to char* 
wcstombs(char*, const wchar_t*, size_t);

[chinanzio]

you could forget the char[] and use irrlicht's string class instead.

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core::stringw Name = "Node01";
EditBox->setText(Name.c_str());

Yeah , works , thanks , now i have to change a lot of code , jeje ...

[chinanzio]

Thanks dardo too.

[chinanzio]

Acki too.