[Win32utils-devel] Wide strings and LPCTSTR types

[win32utils-devel at rubyforge.org]

All,

I was experimenting with converting LPCTSTR strings to wide strings with
something like this:

// Converts a Ruby string to a LPWSTR
LPCTSTR AllocWideLString(VALUE rbString){
   char* str = STR2CSTR(rbString);
   int length = (strlen(str)+1) * sizeof(WCHAR);
   LPCTSTR lpStr = (LPCTSTR)malloc(length);
   
   MultiByteToWideChar(
	CP_ACP,
      0,
      str,
      strlen(str)+1,
      (LPWSTR)lpStr,
      length
   );
   
   return lpStr;
}

But, that didn't seem to work very well in testing.  Is there a better
way?  Otherwise, I'll have to stick to casting for now.

Also, I noticed that there's a IsTextUnicode() function.  Should I be
employing that somehow?

Dan