Hi Theo,
That's a thought... How would that affect my Cstring on Windows?
Dave.
> From: "Theodore H. Smith" <delete at elfdata dot com>
> Reply-To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot
> com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:38:48 +0000
> To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> Subject: Re: CFStrings on Win32
>
>
> Did you consider endian issues?
>
> On 27 Jan 2006, at 13:48, Dave Addey wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks for all of the help with this. Unfortunately, I still can't
>> get it
>> to work. All of this approach works for creating a CFString, but
>> Cstring()
>> is still returning weird characters on Windows. It's specifically the
>> CString from the REALstring which is causing problems, rather than the
>> CFString creation. For some reason, the CString just isn't coming
>> back out
>> correctly on Windows from within the plugin code. (It's fine when
>> set and
>> retrieved in RB).
>>
>> I've spent ages pulling my hair out over this one, so I think I'm
>> going to
>> try a different approach - perhaps using declares for this bit, and
>> then
>> passing in CFObject references to the plugin instead.
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>> From: Eric Baumgartner <eric at inquirium dot net>
>>> Reply-To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-
>>> plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:37:02 -0800
>>> To: <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
>>> Subject: Re: CFStrings on Win32
>>>
>>>> From: Dave Addey <listmail1 at dsl dot pipex dot com>
>>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:37:15 +0000
>>>>
>>>> I tried this (where inParameters->Location is a REALstring):
>>>>
>>>> const char *LocationCString =3D REALCString(inParameters-
>>>>> Location);
>>>> if (LocationCString =3D=3D NULL)
>>>> {
>>>> return -1;
>>>> }
>>>> =20
>>>> CFStringRef LocationCFString =3D CFStringCreateWithCString
>>>> (NULL,
>>>> LocationCString, REALGetStringEncoding(inParameters->Location));
>>>> if (LocationCFString =3D=3D NULL)
>>>> {
>>>> return -1;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> This second call always returns NULL.
>>>
>>> Probably because you aren't specifying an allocator. (At least,
>>> that's the obvious difference I see.) Here's what I use.
>>>
>>> /* Utility function to convert string format.
>>> REAL provides an API for this but it only works on Mac.
>>> Caller is reponsible for releasing the CFString reference.
>>> */
>>> CFStringRef ConvertREALstringToCFString(REALstring str) {
>>> const char *cstr;
>>> CFStringRef theCFString;
>>>
>>> // We're assuming that REALCString returns a pointer to
>>> data, and doesn't create
>>> // something we need to dispose of.
>>> cstr = REALCString(str);
>>> theCFString = CFStringCreateWithCString(kCFAllocatorDefault,
>>> cstr, REALGetStringEncoding(str));
>>> return theCFString;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Eric Baumgartner
>>> Inquirium
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