hey, i was wondering how one would go about getting and manipulating a string that was > 1024 chars from the user. i was thinking i could grab the input in sets (from an edit box on a win32 api text editor), do what i want with it, and then save or send it back to the screen. i dont need help getting the input from the edit box, i just need to know how to find out if theres more text to get or if theres a way i can handle all of the text with one bit of code. thanks
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Try the Windows forum.
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lol well as of right now i'm not having a problem with it. i have a pointer for the text and then after getting the length, i use malloc to allocate the memory for the amount needed.
Code:... TCHAR *buf; int len; HWND hEdit = GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_CHILD_EDIT); len = GetWindowTextLength(hEdit); buf = (TCHAR *)malloc(len + 1); ...
Last edited by willc0de4food; 07-06-2005 at 02:21 AM.
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Size of a TCHAR is not always 1 byte.
So it probably would be safer to do this:
Code:buf = (TCHAR *)malloc( sizeof(TCHAR) * (len + 1) );
alright, thanks.
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