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  • J Jose Lamas Rios

    Where did you define _UNICODE? It needs to be defined for all the files (at the project level, for example) Or maybe you didn't re-create your pre-compiled headers? 'RegOpenKeyEx' getting resolved to 'RegOpenKeyExA' means _UNICODE wasn't defined at the time the compiler found its declaration. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

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    Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Where did you define _UNICODE? It needs to be defined for all the files (at the project level, for example) Yeah, I defined it in the project settings. I just changed _MBCS to _UNICODE. Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Or maybe you didn't re-create your pre-compiled headers? I changed 'Automatic use of precompiled headers' to 'dont use precompiled headers', and got the same errors. Jose Lamas Rios wrote: 'RegOpenKeyEx' getting resolved to 'RegOpenKeyExA' means _UNICODE wasn't defined at the time the compiler found its declaration. Note that _TCHAR is getting resolved to unsigned short, I am wondering whats going wrong with RegOpenKeyEx...

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      Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Where did you define _UNICODE? It needs to be defined for all the files (at the project level, for example) Yeah, I defined it in the project settings. I just changed _MBCS to _UNICODE. Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Or maybe you didn't re-create your pre-compiled headers? I changed 'Automatic use of precompiled headers' to 'dont use precompiled headers', and got the same errors. Jose Lamas Rios wrote: 'RegOpenKeyEx' getting resolved to 'RegOpenKeyExA' means _UNICODE wasn't defined at the time the compiler found its declaration. Note that _TCHAR is getting resolved to unsigned short, I am wondering whats going wrong with RegOpenKeyEx...

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      Flace wrote: Note that _TCHAR is getting resolved to unsigned short, I am wondering whats going wrong with RegOpenKeyEx... Try defining UNICODE (with no leading underscore) too. It seems like _UNICODE affects MFC headers, while UNICODE affects Win32 API headers. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

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        Flace wrote: Note that _TCHAR is getting resolved to unsigned short, I am wondering whats going wrong with RegOpenKeyEx... Try defining UNICODE (with no leading underscore) too. It seems like _UNICODE affects MFC headers, while UNICODE affects Win32 API headers. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

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        Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Try defining UNICODE (with no leading underscore too). It seems like _UNICODE affects MFC headers, while UNICODE affects Win32 API headers Right, I just noticed that that RegOpenKeyEx resolves to RegOpenKeyExW when UNICODE is defined, and not when _UNICODE is defined. I couldnt locate if UNICODE is automatically defined when _UNICODE is defined. So I now changed _UNICODE to UNICODE in the project settings, now tchar.h doesnt seem to know about UNICODE: error C2664: 'RegOpenKeyExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char [512]' to 'const unsigned short *'

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          Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Try defining UNICODE (with no leading underscore too). It seems like _UNICODE affects MFC headers, while UNICODE affects Win32 API headers Right, I just noticed that that RegOpenKeyEx resolves to RegOpenKeyExW when UNICODE is defined, and not when _UNICODE is defined. I couldnt locate if UNICODE is automatically defined when _UNICODE is defined. So I now changed _UNICODE to UNICODE in the project settings, now tchar.h doesnt seem to know about UNICODE: error C2664: 'RegOpenKeyExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char [512]' to 'const unsigned short *'

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          Ok, the problem goes away if I define both UNICODE as well as _UNICODE. Is this how it is supposed to be?

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            Jose Lamas Rios wrote: Try defining UNICODE (with no leading underscore too). It seems like _UNICODE affects MFC headers, while UNICODE affects Win32 API headers Right, I just noticed that that RegOpenKeyEx resolves to RegOpenKeyExW when UNICODE is defined, and not when _UNICODE is defined. I couldnt locate if UNICODE is automatically defined when _UNICODE is defined. So I now changed _UNICODE to UNICODE in the project settings, now tchar.h doesnt seem to know about UNICODE: error C2664: 'RegOpenKeyExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char [512]' to 'const unsigned short *'

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            Get rid of the _MBCS and define both UNICODE and _UNICODE. #include #include const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\MyCompany"; Then call RegOpenKeyEx...

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              Get rid of the _MBCS and define both UNICODE and _UNICODE. #include #include const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\MyCompany"; Then call RegOpenKeyEx...

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              Oops this should read... static const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\\MyCompany";

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                Ok, the problem goes away if I define both UNICODE as well as _UNICODE. Is this how it is supposed to be?

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                Jose Lamas Rios
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                Flace wrote: Ok, the problem goes away if I define both UNICODE as well as _UNICODE. Is this how it is supposed to be? It does seem so :) -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

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                • A Anonymous

                  Oops this should read... static const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\\MyCompany";

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                  Anonymous wrote: static const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\\MyCompany"; Small Question, Why are you using static with const or vice versa :confused:

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                    Anonymous wrote: static const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\\MyCompany"; Small Question, Why are you using static with const or vice versa :confused:

                    "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow

                    cheers, Alok Gupta

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                    Crap everything, he forgot the _T macro. Also, you don't need the static. Correctly, it should read: const TCHAR *mykeyname = _T("Software\\MyCompany");

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                      Crap everything, he forgot the _T macro. Also, you don't need the static. Correctly, it should read: const TCHAR *mykeyname = _T("Software\\MyCompany");

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                      One Stone wrote: Correctly, it should read: Actually My Question is:- if he want to make any thing static then why he making it const or vice versa.as after making const we cannot change it value, so no use of static. Secondly :- One Stone wrote: const TCHAR *mykeyname = _T("Software\\MyCompany"); const TCHAR *mykeyname = "Software\\MyCompany"; This will compile too, but that wouldnot be right approach :).

                      "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow

                      cheers, Alok Gupta

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