Re: [Audacity-devel] Unicode Debug on Windows

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Martyn,

Well, yeah. Nobody would put something in CVS that doesn't work, right? ;-)

Seriously, I added this a few months ago when there was a demand for 
Unicode compatibility. It was a good bit of work, and although it seems 
like it does nothing for Windows users, only Linux, it actually should 
make for more efficient string handling, because Windows internals use 
Unicode -- but string handling is not a bottleneck for Audacity.

Unfortunately, the MSVC compiler doesn't handle it too nicely, witness 
the string catenation issues in your previous message. And now, whenever 
somebody checks in code with multi-line strings that are implicitly 
catenated, that builds fine in Unicode on other platforms/compilers, but 
it still won't do so in MSVC (and apparently Microsoft hasn't fixed this 
in 2005 beta), so we need to fix those strings to build Unicode. There's 
a prettier way to handle that, and I'll forward my message about it from 
a few months ago, back to this list for you to see.

Regarding the other issues, I think you didn't yet build the Unicode 
libs for wxWidgets, because the methods you're missing are wxWidgets'. 
Let me know if you need help with that.

After completing the process of making all the strings in all the source 
work for MSVC with Unicode Debug build, I put it on the back burner and 
didn't do the Unicode Release project, because we're unlikely to release 
it, I think. So, no, it's not actively in development, but I'd like to 
leave it in there in case we ever decide to do more with it. I usually 
just don't include it in a batch build.

-Vaughan


Mar...@ao... wrote:

> Hi
>  
> Has anyone built 1.3.0 Unicode Debug under Windows (VC++)?  I note in 
> compile.txt that it is described as 'under development'.  Is anyone 
> involved in that development?
>  
> Martyn