CString help

[CrazyScorpion]

The version of VS I'm using is VS 2005 Express
I'm trying to create a string object using the CString keyword.

The syntax is womething like the following:

CString Objective;

The compiler errors I'm receiving are:

1>c:\users\gary\documents\visual studio 2005\projects\r20modern\r20modern\Form1.h(146) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Objective'
1>c:\users\gary\documents\visual studio 2005\projects\r20modern\r20modern\Form1.h(146) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>c:\users\gary\documents\visual studio 2005\projects\r20modern\r20modern\Form1.h(146) : error C2144: syntax error : 'int' should be preceded by ';'
1>c:\users\gary\documents\visual studio 2005\projects\r20modern\r20modern\Form1.h(146) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int

 

[SDowd]

What type of project is it? are you including afx.h?

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=277315

post number 10 says the express version does not have access to the MFC at all. that may be your problem.

 

[xwb]

You need to pull in MFC support for 2005 from full blown visual studio. Alternatively, use WTL (

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/)

It is like MFC but uses templates instead of a massive library. Also generates smaller code footprint and does not have a dependency on the different variants of the MFC dll.

 

[CrazyScorpion]

Thanks guys

I'll try to download the WTL. Are there any advantages to using that dll compared to MFC.

 

[CrazyScorpion]

BTW, SDowd, I'm not sure if I'm using AFX.h or not! I'm basically an C++ Builder coder, and havn't yet learned all the options that Microsoft offers me as yet!

 

[xwb]

WTL isn't a library as such - it is just a bunch of templates using the SDK.

CString probably still won't work. You could try std::string (#include <string>) which is the STL way of doing things. It doesn't do some of the formatting that CString does but it will do the basics like assignment, comparison and catenation.

 

[xwb]

Sorry take that back, CStrings do work in WTL.