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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The buffer has to be </span><span lang=EN-NZ style='color:#1F497D'>WideChar if you use the IShellLinkW interface.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='color:#1F497D'>I also had my software unicodified with delphi7. I used the TNT components (last free version is here: </span><a href="http://www.axolot.com/TNT/">http://www.axolot.com/TNT/</a> - it got bought out by TMS software: <a href="http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmsuni.asp">http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmsuni.asp</a> ) and that made things very easy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The TNT component pack adds Unicode enabled VCL-controls as well as Unicode Windows-API support for many functions(FileOpen,FileCreate,etc) and classes(WideStringList, etc). The library makes it easy to be dealing with Unicode. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Kind Regards,<br>Stefan Mueller</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#585757'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666699'>_______________________<br>R&D Manager<br>ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan<br></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/" title="blocked::http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.orcl-toolbox.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> delphi-bounces@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@listserver.123.net.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ross Levis<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 02, 2012 5:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br><b>Subject:</b> [DUG] Unicode help in D7<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I’m adding a small amount of Unicode support in my D7 app to enable opening files where the filenames are in foreign languages. Currently my app can’t even open these files. I’ve installed an OpenFile dialog which provides WideString results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>One thing I need is to resolve shortcuts. I have converted the following function which I had for ANSI filenames into Unicode. Just IShellLinkW and TWin32FindDataW changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>function ResolveShortcut(const LinkPath: WideString): WideString;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>var<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ShellLink: IShellLinkW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> FindData: TWin32FindDataW;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> buff: Array [0..Max_Path-1] of Char;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>begin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> ShellLink := CreateComObject(CLSID_ShellLink) as IShellLinkW;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> PersistFile := ShellLink as IPersistFile;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> if (PersistFile.Load(PWideChar(LinkPath),STGM_READ) = S_OK) and<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (ShellLink.Resolve(Application.Handle, SLR_NO_UI) = NOERROR) and<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (ShellLink.GetPath(buff,MAX_PATH,FindData,SLGP_UNCPRIORITY)= NOERROR) then<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Result := buff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> else Result := ''<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>end;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>But I’m not sure if the buff array should be of WideChar or left as Char.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Does MAX_PATH assume wide characters?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Ross.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>