[fpc-pascal] Help making code unicode capable

[Jonas Maebe]

On 10 Nov 2007, at 15:08, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> Having a win9x version is trivial, but having a version where we put a
> PWideChar into lpStrFilter looks hard...
>
>      lpStrFilter := StrAlloc(Length(Filter)+1);
>      StrPCopy(lpStrFilter, Utf8ToAnsi(Filter));
>
> I tryed this as unicode version:
>
>      lpStrFilter := PChar(PWideChar(Utf8Decode(Filter)));
>
> But it crashes the dialog when it is closed... I don't know what
> exactly is happening here, or why the original code manually alocated
> memory and then copyed the string, instead of just copying,

Maybe because Filter may already have disappeared/freed by the time  
the dialog is closed? (and for some reason it may still need that text  
at that time)


Jonas