what are TCHAR's & _tcscpy?

Hi I'm trying to get a class function to work, the function is;

CD3DFont::CD3DFont ( TCHAR * strFontName,
DWORD dwHeight,
DWORD dwFlags = 0L
)

The problem is when I try to use it I get something about a "long" or unsigned long error. But when I copy the whole class into my main cpp, instead of having it as an include, it works ok. The next bit in the function is;

_tcscpy( m_strFontName, strFontName );

I think this might be what the problem is, I looked up _tcscpy and I think it copies something like a const char to a char, is there any way around this, is there char function that will do it with out the const bit? I don't know what the problem is otherwise.
This is the file if any one wants to see it.

http://dxframework.sourceforge.net/d...pp-source.html

Thanks

TCHAR is an abstract type that can be either a char or wchar_t depending on if you have UNICODE defined or not.

Don't use TCHAR, use char and strcpy() and the likes.

gg

std::string was created for a reason, use it.