Normac

I'm trying to use the compiler Visual Studio Express 2008, yet a sample program that worked for Dev C++ and is supposed to work with VC++.

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/simple_window.html.

I've just copy pasted to get around any mistypes, but i keep getting 4 errors:

.\first_vc.cpp(40) : error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'const char [14]' to 'LPCWSTR'
.\first_vc.cpp(46) : error C2664: 'MessageBox' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [28]' to 'LPCTSTR'
.\first_vc.cpp(57) : error C2664: 'CreateWindowExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [14]' to 'LPCWSTR'
.\first_vc.cpp(61) : error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const char [24]' to 'LPCTSTR'
.\first_vc.cpp(63) : error C2664: 'MessageBox' : cannot convert parameter 3 from 'const char [7]' to 'LPCTSTR'

there seems to be some kind of conversion error like VC++ can't handle Char's.

Thanks for any help

siavoshkc

It is because you should use unicode. But you are using ASCII. You may change its settings.
[edit] Use wchar_t[/edit]

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Salem

See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...tz(VS.80).aspx

Rather than
char message[] = "hello";

You would say
_TCHAR message[] = _TEXT("hello"); // _T() is a shorter macro for _TEXT()

Or
printf("hello");
would be
_tprintf(_T("hello"));

If you use these macros correctly, then your code will compile in ASCII or UNICODE mode.

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