Thread: Upgrading to 2005

Hello, it's me again! A few days I upgraded from Visual C++ 6.0 to Visual 2005 or 8.0, and did some tests, and came with the an error with a code that my old compiler would normally compile with without any errors, I made it simplistic so it only focuses on the problem:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	SetConsoleTitle("This is the Title!");
	system("PAUSE");
	return 0;
}

and these are the errors that come up:

Code:

------ Build started: Project: Title, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
Code.cpp
c:\documents and settings\george\desktop\c++\title\title\code.cpp(8) : error C2664: 'SetConsoleTitleW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char [19]' to 'LPCWSTR'
        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\George\Desktop\C++\Title\Title\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
Title - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Please help, and thanks in advance!

Can anyone help me? Why is it doing this, as it became even more strict?

Sounds like you're compiling with unicode enabled. This should work:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	SetConsoleTitle(TEXT("This is the Title!"));
	system("PAUSE");
	return 0;
}

Alternatively, you could disable unicode

Thanks, yet what is a unicode anyway, how can you disable it?

A couple links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...icode_9i79.asp
http://cprogramming.com/tutorial/unicode.html

As for disabling it, I'm not entirely sure for 2005, but I might guess UNICODE appears under preprocessor definitions in your project options, in which case you could just remove it. Or you could put #undef UNICODE before any includes

oh. Thankyou!

> yet what is a unicode anyway, how can you disable it?
Or get used to it - it isn't going to go away, and more and more stuff will use it in preference to ASCII (or whatever).