Printing float number in MessageBox with Unicode

I am trying to print a float number in a MessageBox while Unicode is defined. I found with Google that it is possible to print a float number by using sprintf to convert a float into a string which can be printed with MessageBox. But this is without Unicode. With Unicode I would expect that wsprintf would do the same thing, but I stil get strange characters in my MessageBox. Does anybody know how to do this?
Thanx.

Code:

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wchar_t msg[20];
float my_float = 10.0f;
wsprintf(msg, L"%f", my_float);
MessageBox(msg, ...);

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Should work, assuming I haven't messed up the arguments.
If it doesn't work, then I suggest you post the smallest possible compilable example that shows the problem.

That "%f" should be L"%f".

As you can not determine the precision (length) of the float, I always use;

_snwprintf() / _snprintf()

to avoid buffer-overruns.

thanks for the replies.
Elysia, that's exactly how I figured it should work, but when I do it, the MessageBox prints 'f'.
I think it has to do with some strange settings in Visual Studio 2008, because when I do the same thing in a 'New Project' it does print the float number.
The strange thing is that in both cases I have started with a Windows Application as 'a new Project' and haven't touched any Project Settings since. I guess Visual Studio must have been changing settings in the mean time, but I have no clue what.

hmmm, I found that if I use 'Debug' mode in Visual Studio and subsequently use 'Start without Debugging', the float number will be printed. But of course I have no executable after that :)
I have been using the 'Release' all the time and then I get a 0.0000 where the float should be. Anybody an idea what is going on there?

What's your code look like? wsprintf doesn't support floating types (see the lack of f, e, and g in the table), so I'm not sure how you're getting anything other than "f" at all.

I mean, ret = 1 and buffer of "f" is all I get from the below code on 7 Ultimate:

Code:

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#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    char buffer[10];
    int ret = wsprintfA(buffer, "%f", 89.99);
    std::cout << "wsprintfA returned " << ret << " and buffer of " << buffer << '\n';
    WCHAR wBuffer[10];
    ret = wsprintfW(wBuffer, L"%f", 89.97);
    std::wcout << L"wsprintfW returned " << ret << " and buffer of " << wBuffer << '\n';
}

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Hi adeyblue, you're right, with wsprintf I get only an 'f' printed.
I found a function MessageBoxPrintf() in the book "Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold, which can print a float. I should have said that.
The only problem I have now is that in Release mode in Visual studio 0.0000 is printed and in Debug mode the correct float is printed, which is useless of course, since I need an executable.
Debugging goes fine untill I close the application, because then I get a message: "Windows has triggered a breakpoint in Annualoutput.exe. This may be due to a corruption of the heap, which indicates a bug in Annualoutput.exe or any of the DLLs it has loaded."
So I guess this means I don't free memory in the correct way?

Since you're using C++, may I suggest you use boost? It has a function called boost::lexical_cast that can convert any type into any other, provided it's supported, of course.
It should be able to convert a float to std::wstring, I believe (haven't tested).

I actually use C, but in Visual Studio I think it is possible to mix some C and C++ code.

std::cout is C++. But C++ allows you to freely mix C and C++ code, within some limitations. Of course, such should be avoided preferably.