Question

my code to make the status bar is here:

int statwidths[] = {300, -1};
HWND hStatus;

hStatus = GetDlgItem(hWnd, IDC_MAIN_STATUS);
SendMessage(hStatus, WM_SIZE, 0, 0);

hStatus = CreateWindowEx(0, STATUSCLASSNAME, NULL,
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | SBARS_SIZEGRIP, 20, 20, 20, 5,
hWnd, (HMENU)IDC_MAIN_STATUS, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);
SendMessage(hStatus, SB_SETPARTS, sizeof(statwidths)/sizeof(int), (LPARAM)statwidths);

//SendMessage(hStatus, SB_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)"Loading things...");
SetWindowText(hStatus, (LPCWSTR)"sdgsdfgd");

either of the bottom ways to set the status bars text just gives garbled Chinese like characters

Answer 1

There is a problem with the following line

SetWindowText(hStatus, (LPCWSTR)"sdgsdfgd");

It should be

SetWindowTextW(hStatus, L"sdgsdfgd");

Also all of this depends on whether the windows is UNICODE or ANSI.