Re: ShortString to PChar

On 2007-02-26, Dennis-Bendert Schramm <dennisschramm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> how do I convert a ShortString into PChar? I just tried 
> pchar([ShortStringPutHere]) but that gave me an error message.
>
> I'm developing an ncurses based app and I need to convert ShortString 
> strings to Pchar to use them with the mvwaddstr and mvprintw functions.

Best is to avoid the shortstring all together, and use ansistrings.

But if you have your reasons, then append #0 and pass a ptr to the first
character.

so 

  s:=s+#0;
  pass(@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
);

If you pass windows MBCS using functions, you might need to add two #0's,
so on
Windows better use

  s:=s+#0#0;
  pass(@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
);