C / C++ / MFC

case IDC_BTN_TEST:
    editWnd = GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, IDC_EDIT1);
    stringLength = GetWindowTextLength(editWnd);
    if (stringLength != 0)
    {
        strBuffer = new WCHAR[stringLength+2];
        GetWindowText(editWnd, strBuffer, stringLength+1);
        MessageBox(hwndDlg, strBuffer, L"title", MB_OK);
        delete strBuffer;
    }
    return TRUE;

enhzflep wrote:

For some reason, calling GetWindowText with stringLength (as opposed to stringLength+1) returns the string minus the last character...

((number of characters) * sizeof(TCHAR)) + sizeof(TCHAR)

for (int i = 1; i < 5; i++){
    for (int j = 1; j < 5-i; j++){
        cout << " ";
    }
    for (; j < 5; j++){
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

Yolande MR wrote:

I need it has to do something with the spaces, but could not write one. Since i don't have a database to look at.

for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
    cout << " ";
    // printf(" ");
    // printf("%c", ' ');
    // printf("%c", 32);
    // printf("%c", 0x20);

for (int i = 1; i < 5; i++){
    for (int j = 1; j < i; j++){
        cout << " ";
    }
    for (; j < 5; j++){
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

Richard MacCutchan wrote:

C# programmers dabblers apparently have no clue as to ...