RE: Strings and unicode (was Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: [XaraXtreme-commits] Commit Complete)

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 19 April 2006 13:34 +0100 Gerry Iles <GerryI@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, I actually meant by calling camMbstowcs to convert the filename
> string.  wxWidgets does actually declare a TCHAR variant of the __FILE__
> macro but that would mean changing our memory tracking code in fixmem
> and ccobject which currently uses a char[22] to store the filename.  I'm
> not sure whether I prefer adding another 22 bytes (or 66 where wchar_t
> is actually 32 bits) to all our memory allocations in debug builds or
> making the code convert it to Unicode when necessary.  I'm leaning
> toward the latter as it happens far less often and will have a more
> predictable impact.

With the added benefit that debugging char * seems to be much easier
than debugging TCHAR *.

Alex