Re: Tiburón and FastCode

Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] wrote:

Dennis wrote:

Hi

Perhaps because in the ol'days "string" was all there was?

OK

I am still shuddering at the thought of modifying all the apps I
have coded with plain ol' string. <sigh>

I am not sure it will to hard. CodeGear has probably done a lot of
work to make the transition to Unicode easy.

What if you simply make a search and replace on string -> AnsiString
- will everything just work as before?

Yes, and no. Also Char, PChar etc. must be replaced.

Oh, and if you cast a string to PAnsiChar instead of PChar, you might
be casting a UnicodeString to AnsiChar, which is hardly what you want:

ShellExecuteA(0, PAnsiChar('myfile.txt'), ...);

Since myfile.txt is probably a string, that might cause problems. So
you should do:

ShellExecute(0, PChar('myfile.txt'), ...);

or:

ShellExecuteA(0, PAnsiChar(AnsiString('myfile.txt')), ...);

Note that I used the -A version of ShellExecute for the PAnsiChar cast.
<g>

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