RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] BaseStr::MakeMsg problems

["Gerry Iles" <GerryI@xxxxxxxx>]

Well, it is mostly working but there are various bits of it that use
char strings (HTML related stuff) and have issues with char/TCHAR
mismatches (e.g. calling TCHAR functions with a char buffer it has for
HTML parsing).

Gerry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Alex Bligh
Sent: 10 April 2006 23:52
To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Alex Bligh
Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] BaseStr::MakeMsg problems

Gerry,

Thanks for that. No, I have no need to fix it for 0.4. In fact the
stuff that's using it can't be checked in for 0.4 anyway. It looks like
this will magically fix itself when your stuff comes along.

BTW I thought CCLexFile etc. was working?

Alex

--On 10 April 2006 22:44 +0100 Gerry Iles <GerryI@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> These should really be left as they are.  In an effort to resolve this
> issue (among others) I have made lots of changes in my working copy
that
> changes the string function usage to use new camStrcpy type functions
> that map to the wx equivalents.  This means that %s will always mean a
> TCHAR string as wx does the translation you suggest on OSes that
require
> it.  This also removes the need for the PERCENT_ macros.
>
> I can't really check this in until after 0.4 though as the changes are
> very widespread.
>
> There is still quite a lot of code (that is mostly not compiled at
> present) that will not currently work correctly due to char/TCHAR
> mismatches (e.g. CCLexFile and most of the text based filter types
such
> as EPS).
>
> If you need to fix something for 0.4 then I suggest you redefine
> tsprintf (and any related functions) as the wx equivalent (e.g.
> wxSnprintf) and change the PERCENT_ macros to be just %s and %c.  This
> should still compile and should fix you issue with MakeMsg for the
time
> being...
>
> Gerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 10 April 2006 21:04
> To: xara-dev
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: [XaraXtreme-dev] BaseStr::MakeMsg problems
>
> Gerry (mainly),
>
> In BaseStr::MakeMsg(), it tries to interpret things like #1%s. It
> decodes this to a %s which is merrilly passes to tsprintf.
>
> In our string resource file, #1%s means a string, and this should
> be independent of whether the build is unicode or not (we should
> not need to retranslate resources to do a non-unicode build).
>
> But tsprintf sees '%s' (it seems) as pointing to a non-unicode
> string, so we only get the first letter. It wants "%ls" passed.
> It's obviously an unreasonable requirement that this should
> be in all the string definitions.
>
> I could go fix this (write a tsprintf variant that goes through
> and fixes up the format string), but I know we were looking
> at Unicode bogosity. That's what I do on errors etc.
> Where did you get to on this?
>
> Alex
>
>