On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > I cannot say from others, but I had this issue (about WideString) for now.
The section "Calling Windows API" says: 'Only the "W" versions of Windows API functions should be called. It is like in Delphi except that you must assign strings to/from API calls to UnicodeString variables or typecast with UnicodeString().' Then it also explains the difference between WideString and UnicodeString. I should add a mention about PWideChar parameters. Anyway the idea is to keep the information useful and dense. Earlier it was bloated and intimidating. > Are you saying that I need to do this? > (following the firt example on this thread) No, if the parameter is WideString, not a pointer PWideChar, you can just call it like you did. Suppress the warning as Mattias told if it bothers you. You can also make a helper function so the conversion happens in one place. Yes, for OLE you need WideString. Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
