- // VZ: I don't know why it happens, but the versions of
- // comctl32.dll starting from 4.70 sometimes send TTN_NEEDTEXTW
- // even to ANSI programs (normally, this message is supposed
- // to be sent to Unicode programs only) - hence we need to
- // handle it as well, otherwise no tooltips will be shown in
- // this case
-
- size_t lenAnsi = help.Len();
- #if defined( __MWERKS__ ) || defined( __CYGWIN__ )
- // MetroWerks doesn't like calling mbstowcs with NULL argument
- // neither Cygwin does
- size_t lenUnicode = 2*lenAnsi;
- #else
- size_t lenUnicode = mbstowcs(NULL, help, lenAnsi);
- #endif
-
- // using the pointer of right type avoids us doing all sorts of
- // pointer arithmetics ourselves
- wchar_t *dst = (wchar_t *)ttText->szText,
- *pwz = new wchar_t[lenUnicode + 1];
- mbstowcs(pwz, help, lenAnsi + 1);
- memcpy(dst, pwz, lenUnicode*sizeof(wchar_t));
-
- // put the terminating _wide_ NUL
- dst[lenUnicode] = 0;
-
- delete [] pwz;