Question

This code should compile without errors you should link -lcomdlg32 for dialogs. The program returns: 0x22fcd8 or 68 if I use pointer. And should (I think) return the name of the file user types in dialog box.

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
  wchar_t szFileName[MAX_PATH] = {0};
  OPENFILENAMEW ofn;
  ZeroMemory(&ofn, sizeof(ofn));
  ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(OPENFILENAME);
  ofn.nMaxFile = MAX_PATH;
  ofn.lpstrFile = szFileName;
  GetSaveFileNameW(&ofn);

  using namespace std;
  cout << szFileName << endl;
  cout << *szFileName << endl; // also a number not a string
}

Answer 1

You have to use wcout if you want to output an array of wchar_t as a null-terminated wide string.