String Conversion

[Frank Deo]

I am converting a dos app to a windows app. The application changes passwords for given a given user. The dos application accepts servername, username, and password as cmd line arg's. They are defined as char username[50], password[128], etc. My dialog takes the username and password as CString's. How can I convert the CString to make it compatible with the char [50], etc above? Thanks! "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"

[Dominik Reichl]

To make a CString from char[]:

char username[50];
// Fill username

CString str;
str = username;

To make a char[] from CString:

CString str;
// Fill str

char username[50];
memset(username, 0, 50);
strncpy(username, str.LockBuffer(), 50-1);
str.UnlockBuffer();

Hope that helps :-D Dominik

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_outp(0x64, 0xAD); and __asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al do the same... but what do they do?? ;) (doesn't work on NT)

[David Crow]

The calls to LockBuffer() and UnlockBuffer() are not necessary as the second parameter to strncpy() is expecting a LPCSTR, which CString provides. The same is true for GetBuffer() and ReleaseBuffer().

[Frank Deo]

Thanks! That worked great. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"