Re: [Patch] Replace deprecated WSAStringToAddressA

[Chris Ruehl <chris.ruehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, June 07, 2017 02:32 PM, Chris Ruehl wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 07, 2017 02:09 PM, Aris Adamantiadis wrote:
> > On 7/06/17 07:40, Chris Ruehl wrote:
> > > -    rc = WSAStringToAddressA((LPSTR) str,
> > > +    rc = WSAStringToAddressW((LPWSTR) str,
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> >
> > Does the cast from char * to LPWSTR really work that way? I'm not very
> > well experienced in Windows programming but if I recall properly you're
> > supposed to convert the C string into a unicode wide string before using
> > the -W family functions. Am I mistaken?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Aris
>
> I'd linked it with my application where I use the pure IP-address to connect to
> a host. Verified its works well. I used QTCreator which shows the parameter list
> so I used it for the cast.
>
> I don't want to open the box and change all to wchar_t :o)
>
> Chris

size_t size = strlen(str);
wchar_t* wArr = new wchar_t[size];
for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i)
    wArr[i] = str[i];

and using wArr for str in the function without a cast

Chris