show RTL message box (in Unicode build only) when using RTL (patch 1622000)

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@44062 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/src/msw/msgdlg.cpp b/src/msw/msgdlg.cpp
index d19261705ed730d96042b655c1bbce0f06e51375..5312a8ec0668f9371b88aa83e98e9c0cd121deaf 100644 (file)
--- a/src/msw/msgdlg.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/msgdlg.cpp
@@ -107,8 +107,21 @@ int wxMessageDialog::ShowModal()
     else
         msStyle |= MB_TASKMODAL;
 
+    // per MSDN documentation for MessageBox() we can prefix the message with 2
+    // right-to-left mark characters to tell the function to use RTL layout
+    // (unfortunately this only works in Unicode builds)
+    wxString message = m_message;
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE
+    if ( wxTheApp->GetLayoutDirection() == wxLayout_RightToLeft )
+    {
+        // NB: not all compilers support \u escapes
+        static const wchar_t wchRLM = 0x200f;
+        message.Prepend(wxString(wchRLM, 2));
+    }
+#endif // wxUSE_UNICODE
+
     // do show the dialog
-    int msAns = MessageBox(hWnd, m_message.c_str(), m_caption.c_str(), msStyle);
+    int msAns = MessageBox(hWnd, message, m_caption, msStyle);
     int ans;
     switch (msAns)
     {