Need some help with a patch for version.dll
Stefan Dösinger
stefandoesinger at gmx.at
Thu Aug 25 14:29:14 CDT 2005
Hi,
> I can't use a LPCSTR, cause:
>
> BOOL WINAPI VerQueryValueA( LPVOID pBlock, LPCSTR lpSubBlock,
> LPVOID *lplpBuffer, UINT *puLen )
>
> lplpBuffer points to a place in pBlock where the value is. This value is
> in most cases a UNICODE string. This string has to be converted to ANSI
> and placed on a different place in pBlock (+ info->wLength + 4).
>
> Hope this makes sense.
Oh, sure, you can't change it here. I guess you need a typecast here to
supress the warning.
But there are some helper functions for converting a unicode string to an ansi
string. If you can use them, this might save you some troubles.
Stefan
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