Optionally return length from wxLoadUserResource().

Add optional length output parameter and also change the return type to "char
*" from "wxChar *" to which it apparently was blindly changed just to make
this code compile even though this function never returned any strings.

Closes #11214.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@61977 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/include/wx/utils.h b/include/wx/utils.h
index dbd88a6342a4145ff3ee38b03dd875d9c6e3ffd0..38c59e5f6a74e826374c96200037e32ae0dfa8eb 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/utils.h
+++ b/include/wx/utils.h
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ void WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxGetMousePosition( int* x, int* y );
 // Returns NULL or newly-allocated memory, so use delete[] to clean up.
 #ifdef __WXMSW__
     extern WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE const wxChar* wxUserResourceStr;
-    WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxChar* wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName, const wxString& resourceType = wxUserResourceStr);
+    WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE char* wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName, const wxString& resourceType = wxUserResourceStr, int* pLen = NULL);
 #endif // MSW
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

diff --git a/src/msw/utilsgui.cpp b/src/msw/utilsgui.cpp
index 513a56f8101f6ac50c6c0619f3e1aff8fabe511d..68ca45db20cafbe0293087787bc83e2fe4c5238d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/msw/utilsgui.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/utilsgui.cpp
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ bool wxCheckForInterrupt(wxWindow *wnd)
 // Returns NULL or newly-allocated memory, so use delete[] to clean up.
 
 #ifndef __WXMICROWIN__
-wxChar *wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName, const wxString& resourceType)
+char *wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName, const wxString& resourceType, int* pLen /* = NULL */)
 {
     HRSRC hResource = ::FindResource(wxGetInstance(),
                                      resourceName.wx_str(),
@@ -120,15 +120,16 @@ wxChar *wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName, const wxString& resourc
     if ( hData == 0 )
         return NULL;
 
-    wxChar *theText = (wxChar *)::LockResource(hData);
+    void *theText = ::LockResource(hData);
     if ( !theText )
         return NULL;
 
     // Not all compilers put a zero at the end of the resource (e.g. BC++ doesn't).
     // so we need to find the length of the resource.
-    int len = ::SizeofResource(wxGetInstance(), hResource) + 1;
-    wxChar *s = new wxChar[len];
-    wxStrlcpy(s, theText, len);
+    int len = ::SizeofResource(wxGetInstance(), hResource);
+    char *s = new char[len + 1];
+    memcpy(s, theText, len);
+    s[len] = '\0'; // NUL-terminate in case the resource itself wasn't
 
     // Obsolete in WIN32
 #ifndef __WIN32__
@@ -138,6 +139,9 @@ wxChar *wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName, const wxString& resourc
     // No need??
     //  GlobalFree(hData);
 
+    if (pLen)
+      *pLen = len;
+
     return s;
 }
 #endif // __WXMICROWIN__