[fpc-devel] Widestrings in win32

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 16 Jun 2007, schreef Martin Schreiber:

> Hi,
> It seems that CG plans to implement an non BSTR widestring type for win32:
> http://groups.google.ch/group/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/msg/7caeced42f1934a4?hl=en&
 
> The introduced string handling for the "Unicode VCL" is equivalent to the 
> string handling in MSEgui BTW.

Noted. As COM incompatibilty seems preferable over not working 
widestrings, shall I disable the winlikewidestring in 2.1.5?

Can someone reply Allan Bauer about using ptrint, and better, ptruint 
(explain pitfalls). It seems I have been banned from that newsgroup 
yesterday, without any apparent reason :(

Daniël