UNICODE+VB6

[JALAL AL HADDAD]

HOW TO DISPLAY UNICODE STRING ON VB FORMS?
I HAVE TESTED A 3 LANGUAGES STRING TO BE DISPLAYES IN TEXT BOX OR BABEL,
NO WAY.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA?

[Dan Appleman]

JALAL AL HADDAD wrote:

> HOW TO DISPLAY UNICODE STRING ON VB FORMS?
> I HAVE TESTED A 3 LANGUAGES STRING TO BE DISPLAYES IN TEXT BOX OR BABEL,
> NO WAY.
> DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA?

I'm perplexed. VB strings are all Unicode internally. If you assign a string
to a caption of, say a label control, it should
display correctly (on NT).

Windows 95/98 doesn't support Unicode, so I'm not sure what would happen in
that case.

Dan

[Mattias Sjögren]

Hi Dan & Jalal,

Sorry for dropping in late here.

>I'm perplexed. VB strings are all Unicode internally. If you assign a string
>to a caption of, say a label control, it should display correctly (on NT).

But AFAIK, windowed VB controls are ANSI even on NT, created with
CreateWindowExA. IsWindowUnicode returns FALSE. Doesn't that matter?

Also, I think I read somewhere that VB sets all text/caption
properties using SetWindowTextA or SendMessageA(WM_SETTEXT). So no
Unicode strings would make it through without first being converted to
ANSI.

I'm not sure what happens for windowless controls like Labels. I guess
it depends on which function VB uses to draw the caption.


Mattias

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