[lazarus] Patches to Shanes files

[Shane Miller]

I display the stringvar and it has NO garbage init before OR after the conversion, yet the newpchar does.

Shane


>>> "Michael A. Hess" <mhess at miraclec.com> 07/07 1:09 PM >>>
Shane Miller wrote:
> 
> I have fixed the problem with the events using a char array (sort of)
> by changing it to a PChar.
> 
> Here's the problem, even using a pchar and doing..
> 
> newpchar := StrAlloc(Length(StringVar)+1);
> StrPCopy(newPChar,StringVar);
> 
> I still get unwanted characters.  Why is this?  I'm not sure what the
> problem is.  I thought doing it this way would work.

If the StringVar has garbage data at the end it will still be there
after the conversion to PChar.

I'll give you a hand looking at this when I get home this afternoon.

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Michael A. Hess      Miracle Concepts, Inc.
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