Re: LPCWSTR Variable Corrupted

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:39:50 +0100
Message-ID:
<#lfi3PGbKHA.5656@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
"Canacourse" <canacourse@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:90a8a681-9933-4f86-9693-34cf1f2f87e4@f10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...

No casting involved. That problem of course happens if a FileName
parameter is passed but for test/tracking purposes I was setting the
name of the file in the CDataFile::OpenFile function itself.

FileName = _T("c:\\SomeFile.Txt");

FileName is an optional parameter "int OpenFile(LPCTSTR FileName =
0)" and if not passed the OpenFile Function will create a temp file.


I tried something like this:

<code>

class CDataFile : public CStdioFile
{
public:
    CDataFile(void)
    {

    }

    ~CDataFile(void)
    {

    }

    DWORD OpenFile(LPCTSTR pszFileName)
    {
        UINT openFlags = CFile::modeNoTruncate | CFile::modeReadWrite;

        if (! Open( pszFileName, openFlags, NULL) )
        {
            return GetLastError();
        }

        return 0;
    }
};

</code>

with a simple test like this:

<code>

    CDataFile df;
    df.OpenFile( _T("c:\\test.txt") );

</code>

I set a breakpoint on OpenFile call, and I see no corruption of
'pszFileName' string.

You may want to show us the actual code to try to get a better help.
(Joe suggested to pass a 'const CString &', but in general an 'LPCTSTR'
should be just fine as an input read-only string parameter.)

Giovanni

 

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