On 01/07/2013 at 10:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:
User Information:
Cinema 4D Version: R13-R14
Platform: Windows ;
Language(s) : C++ ;
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Writing C++ plugins for C4D, how do you format a string?
I want to do this:
"The file %1 exists, do you want to overwrite?", dialogFileName.GetFileString()
But haven't found a way to do it in C++.
On 01/07/2013 at 10:48, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Take a look at MessageDialog() - there are several overrides. But to do this you will need to use a resource string (good practice anyway). Of course, it's only good for short messages, but that's often all that's needed.
On 01/07/2013 at 10:52, xxxxxxxx wrote:
c4d offers string format functionality for loading strings from the resource with geloadstring.
On 01/07/2013 at 10:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:
There are a couple of ways to do this.
Here is the first one.
String = "The file " + dialogFileName.GetFileString() + " exists, do you want to overwrite?";
Another way is to use something like snprintf() but it is not a C4D way to do this :)
char buffer [128];
int cx = snprintf ( buffer, 128, "The file %1 exists, do you want to overwrite?", str );
//TODO: Add better way to do this...
On 01/07/2013 at 11:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Originally posted by xxxxxxxx
c4d offers string format functionality for loading strings from the resource with geloadstring.
Bingo!
That's the one for me, thanks.
Originally posted by xxxxxxxx
Take a look at MessageDialog() - there are several overrides. But to do this you will need to use a resource string (good practice anyway).
Yes, I always use resource strings.
Great tip! Just using the ID - fantastic.
On 02/07/2013 at 11:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Here's a quick-n-dirty "printf()" type function - just make sure that you don't overflow the buffer :)...
//-------------------------------------------------------------
// GePrintF()
//-------------------------------------------------------------
void GePrintF(const CHAR *format,...)
{
va_list arp;
CHAR buf[1024];
va_start(arp,format);
vsprintf(buf,format,arp);
GePrint(buf);
va_end(arp);
}