char* into MessageBoxW?

[refractor]

This is surely a really stupid question, but I need to do something (like) :

long my_function(char *str)
{
return MessageBox(str,TEXT("HELLO"),MB_OK);
}

Except MessageBoxW expects str to be a Wide and I can't find a conversion function ... or I'm missing something obvious here...?

Cheers,

Refractor

[refractor]

[BurningSheep]

[Hosed]

CStrings are based around the TCHAR as well so when you build functions to accept TCHARs it becomes much easier to use CStrings with them.

[R0B]

[Guest]

hmm.. _T is exactly the same as TEXT.. if you're so concerned about "shortness" not why simply use L"my string"?

call me pedantic

[BurningSheep]

L"String" always converts your string to unicode. So it doesn't do the same thing as the _T and TEXT macros do. They leave the string unchanged if unicode isn't used.

[refractor]

[Hosed]