Converting CString to LPCTSTR

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Direct assignment works in most cases( I have personally tried and succeeded in doing so in VC6 and Visual Studio 8)that is:

CString s="hello";
LPCTSTR p = s;

Posted 13-Apr-10 0:29am

kartikdasani

Updated 13-Apr-10 2:15am

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Solution 4

By deleting your OP it is not easy to find the problem, your code for the question was

kartikdasani wrote:

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CString p;
m_editbox->GetWindowText(p);
CWND *c = FindWindow(NULL,p);

Also the title is no lucky choice, because I think the problem is not the conversion from CString to LPCTSTR.

The call to FindWindow() is correct, when it is inside a CWnd derived class. But you should look at the description of CWnd::FindWindow() it will only find top-level windows, not child windows.

As <removed class="Error">CPallini already posted, give us more details.

Posted 13-Apr-10 5:01am

stebich

Solution 1

As it stands your code doesn't even compile (FindWindow returns a HWND).
Please post your actual code, and state clearly what do you get (and what you expect).

BTW: please modify your original post instead of adding fake answers.
:)

Posted 13-Apr-10 0:37am

CPallini

Solution 3

I suggest you read this excellent article[^]

Posted 13-Apr-10 3:49am

Cedric Moonen

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Saurabh.Garg · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-13T02:18:00

Solution 2

http://nibuthomas.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/converting-cstring-to-lpctstr-or-lptstr/[^].

-Saurabh

Posted 13-Apr-10 2:18am

Saurabh.Garg