Am Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:44:40 +0200 schrieb Timon Gehr: > On 09/20/2011 08:24 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: >> On 09/20/2011 08:07 PM, Andre wrote: >>> Am Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:27:03 +0200 schrieb Trass3r: >>> >>>>> bool test(HDC dc, string str, int len, SIZE* s) >>>>> { >>>>> wchar[] wstr = toUTFz!(wchar*)str; >>>>> GetTextExtentPoint32W(dc wstr.ptr, wstr.length, s); >>>> >>>> toUTFz returns a wchar*, not a wchar[]. >>> >>> I am not familiar with pointers. I know I have to >>> call toUTFz! and fill pointer value and length value >>> of the WinAPI from the result. >>> Do you have any suggestions how to achieve this API call? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Andre >> >> Are you sure that the call requires the string to be null terminated? I >> do not know that winapi function, but this might work: >> >> bool test(HDC dc, string str, SIZE* s) >> { >> auto wstr = to!(wchar[])str; >> GetTextExtentPoint32W(dc, wstr.ptr, wstr.length, s); >> ... > > sry, should have read: > > bool test(HDC dc, string str, SIZE* s) > { > auto wstr = to!(wchar[])(str); > GetTextExtentPoint32W(dc, wstr.ptr, wstr.length, s); > ...
thanks a lot for your help. Kind regards Andre