is this conversion from a char buf to a wchar correct?

[gabbana]

hi, i want to ask a simple question related to my code here. I am using a MessageBox to show the user the estimated time of the battery. The start value is an ULONG which i put into my function as float seconds. The cond param is the returnstring of my function. Is the conversion (because the wsprintf function does not understand the %f param for formatting) right ? And what could i improve ? Thanks !

void gettimestring(float seconds,wchar_t *input)
{

float minutes,hours;
hours = floorf(seconds/3600);
seconds -= hours\*3600;
minutes = floorf(seconds/60);
seconds -= minutes\*60;

char buf\[20\];

sprintf(buf,"%02.0f:%02.0f:%02.0f",hours,minutes,seconds);
wsprintf(input,L"%S",buf);

}

bye, gabbana

[Varghese Paul M]

Try Win32 API "MultiByteToWideChar" For example

int nSize = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP,MB_PRECOMPOSED,buf,strlen(buf),input,sizeof(input));
input[nSize] = 0;

[CPallini]

Why are you using floats for such a thing?

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[gabbana]

The calcucaltion of the hours have decimal numbers. So I think i need floats at minimum or what do you mean exactly ?

[gabbana]

Okay thanks i will try it, i think i need first to look into the msdn what the params exactly mean.

[CPallini]

I mean, for instance

7305 seconds = 2 hours, 1 minute, 42 seconds

for such a conversion floats are not needed:

int iTotSecs = 7305;
int iHours, iMins, iSecs;
iHours = iTotSecs / 3600;
iMins = (iTotSecs % 3600) / 60;
iSecs = iTotSecs % 60;

:)

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[gabbana]

ohh yes that's right, but if i could remember the compiler put out some warnings and this was it i want to avoid.

[David Crow]

gabbana wrote:

The calcucaltion of the hours have decimal numbers.

So then use a double.

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[CPallini]

To eliminate all the warnings a simple cast on the original variable is enough. :)

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[ThatsAlok]

gabbana wrote:

char buf[20]; sprintf(buf,"%02.0f:%02.0f:%02.0f",hours,minutes,seconds); wsprintf(input,L"%S",buf);

Instead of using char memory to variable buf, why don't you simply allocate the memory to wchar!

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