Re: ToNewCString Linkage.

[Darin Fisher]

Mozilla does not export any frozen APIs to convert from |const 
nsAString::char_type*| to |const char*|.  if you are writing your code 
to work only on Win32, then you can use the WideCharToMultiByte system 
call, or you can write your own code to convert from UTF-16 to a narrow 
character encoding of your choice.  if you know you are only dealing 
with ASCII data, then you can simply write out every other byte ;-)

Darin



Abhilash Maniam wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to extract the contents of the DOM document and write to a 
text file in ASCII.

I tried using the strdup but the compiler complains "cannot convert 
parameter 1 from 'const nsAString::char_type *' to 'const char *'"
if I use strdup(name.get()) where name is nsEmbedString.

What are the other ways of converting from the EmbedString type to an 
ASCII type for writing?

Thank you.
Abhilash


L. David Baron wrote:

On Friday 2003-08-01 01:15 -0600, Abhilash Maniam wrote:

I have Gecko-sdk 1.4 for windows and am using Visual C++ .NET. What 
is the library that I have to link against for ToNewCString?

I have the following lines in my code:

 nsEmbedString name;
 char *str;
 domDocument->GetLocalName(name);
 str = ToNewCString(name);


|ToNewCString| is not a frozen API.  Perhaps you'd be better off using
|strdup(name.get())|?  (Or, if using the right allocator is an issue,
maybe using nsMemory::Alloc and then strcpy?  Or do you even need the
copy at all?)
-David