I am trying to capture the filename from a dragged/dropped file into a
list control. I have read every single Tutorial, How-To and other
documentation I can find and I still can't get it to work. The drag
procedure works properly (the application captures it) but the filename
is passed as complete gibberish characters. As a test, I have been
tryingto get the name to display in either a list box or a message box.
I am using Windows XP and Dev-CPP.

Here is the source:

case WM_DROPFILES:
{
HDROP hdrop2;
TCHAR anewname[256];
DragQueryFile(hdrop2,0, anewname, 256);//sizeof(anewname));
SendMessage(hListBox,LB_ADDSTRING,0,(LPARAM)TEXT(a newname));
MessageBox(hwnd,anewname, "Dropped File:", MB_OK );
DragFinish(hdrop2);

}

* allen.clarkson@gmail.com:[color=blue]
> [off-topic][/color]

Try posting this q in e.g. [comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32].

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ok, just did. I was hoping, however, that someone in the C++ group
would have run across this before.

On 26 Jul 2005 02:13:01 -0700, <allen.clarkson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> ok, just did. I was hoping, however, that someone in the C++ group
> would have run across this before.
>[/color]

almost certainly.
:)
but here, they do not answer questions which are not related to c++ by
principle. for good reasons, imho.