Visual C++ General: How to use different character sets?
Sun, 18/02/2007 - 20:42 — admin
Q: I have this simple function call:
MessageBox(NULL, "Test message", "Title", MB_OK);
The compiler raises the following error and I don't understand why.
error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [13]' to 'LPCWSTR'
Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
A: Simply answered, that happens because the project is built for UNICODE.
Microsoft run-time library provides Microsoft-specific generic-text mappings for many data types, routines and other objects, mappings that are defined in TCHAR.h. There are three supported character sets:[/list][*]ASCII (single-byte character set
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