define HDS_FLAT not defined in VC6 headers

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / chartype.h

diff --git a/include/wx/chartype.h b/include/wx/chartype.h
index a326f0691cd0f40a67cc6e258e4d04a3bdb41652..73606a61e0f714d18dee40b5f687c1df6aeb6272 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/chartype.h
+++ b/include/wx/chartype.h
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 #endif /* !defined(wxUSE_WCHAR_T) */
 
 /* Unicode support requires wchar_t */
-#if wxUSE_UNICODE && !wxUSE_WCHAR_T
-    #error "wchar_t must be available in Unicode build"
+#if !wxUSE_WCHAR_T
+    #error "wchar_t must be available"
 #endif /* Unicode */
 
 /*
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
     typedef char wxChar;
     typedef signed char wxSChar;
     typedef unsigned char wxUChar;
-#else /* Unicode */
+#else
     /* VZ: note that VC++ defines _T[SU]CHAR simply as wchar_t and not as    */
     /*     signed/unsigned version of it which (a) makes sense to me (unlike */
     /*     char wchar_t is always unsigned) and (b) was how the previous     */
@@ -214,11 +214,9 @@
 #endif
 
 /* define char type used by wxString internal representation: */
-#if wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8
-    typedef char wxStringCharType;
-#elif wxUSE_UNICODE_WCHAR
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE_WCHAR
     typedef wchar_t wxStringCharType;
-#else
+#else /* wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 || ANSI */
     typedef char wxStringCharType;
 #endif
 
@@ -243,6 +241,18 @@
     #endif /* ASCII/Unicode */
 #endif /* !defined(_T) */
 
+/*
+   wxS ("wx string") macro can be used to create literals using the same
+   representation as wxString does internally, i.e. wchar_t in Unicode build
+   under Windows or char in UTF-8-based Unicode builds and (deprecated) ANSI
+   builds everywhere (see wxStringCharType definition above).
+ */
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE_WCHAR
+    #define wxS(x) wxCONCAT_HELPER(L, x)
+#else /* wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 || ANSI */
+    #define wxS(x) x
+#endif
+
 /* although global macros with such names are normally bad, we want to have  */
 /* another name for _T() which should be used to avoid confusion between     */
 /* _T() and _() in wxWidgets sources */