Re: Passing string from VB to C++ dll routine

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From: "Lindsay" <me@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:15:16 +0100

Ah! That's it! The APIs are in C++, so I just amended DrawText to DrawTextW
and passed the same pointer that I was giving DrawShadowText, et voila! I
didn't know there was a Unicode version of DrawText. I must of overlooked it
somehow.

Thanks Jim.

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