Windows API Translation

Andrew Wiley debio264 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 08:42:18 PST 2011


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:
> Trass3r Wrote:
>
>> > HANDLE WINAPI FindFirstChangeNotification(
>> >   __in  LPCTSTR lpPathName,
>> >   __in  BOOL bWatchSubtree,
>> >   __in  DWORD dwNotifyFilter
>> > );
>>
>> FindFirstChangeNotification is - like any other Windows function that receives a string - just an alias that points to a version with suffix W or A depending on whether your project is configured to be Unicode or not.
>
> D string encoding is not configurable. What configuration are you talking about?
>

It's a setting in Visual Studio that translates into a compiler switch
for Visual C++, or such is my understanding. He was talking about
configuration on the Microsoft C/C++ side, not the D side.
In D, I just have to add a suffix to the name to choose the one I want.


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