Question

i am trying to read Window title from txt file

i will use GetTitleWidnow to get window title using string

i tried this but it didnt display menu in application

   ostringstream GetTitleWidnow;
    GetTitleWidnow << "MainSvrt on port 51752";
    LPCWSTR LMainSvrtTitle;
std::string SMainSvrtTitle = GetTitleWidnow.str();
LMainSvrtTitle = (LPCWSTR)SMainSvrtTitle.c_str();


HWND hWnd = FindWindow(NULL,LMainSvrtTitle);
HMENU hCurrent = GetMenu(hWnd);
HMENU hNew = CreateMenu();
AppendMenu(hCurrent, MF_STRING | MF_POPUP, (unsigned int)hNew, TEXT("Menu"));
AppendMenu(hNew, MF_STRING, MYMENU_Reload, TEXT("Reload Config"));
AppendMenu(hNew, MF_STRING, MYMENU_Credits, TEXT("Credits"));
DrawMenuBar(hWnd); 

but when i try

 HWND hWnd = FindWindow(NULL,TEXT("MainSvrt on port 51752"));

i get it working fine and it display menu in application

Answer 1

You should either use Microsoft’s CString which automatically converts between wide and narrow characters, or use the MultiByteToWideChar function.