Re: How to display StandardAlert in Powerplant while localization

In article <1141309309.365829.74710@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Neel" <nilesh_ibmr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Hi
>     Trying to display StandardAlert in Powerplant while localization.
> Want to display simplified chinese string .i.e.Str255 dst =
> "\p总阈值"; which is already converted to UTF8, using XCODE
> IDE. The original en string is "Global Threshold".  Now I am trying to
> display it using StandardAlert in PP, but it does not display any
> characters at all....Have a look at the following code snippet....
> 
>
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> AlertStdAlertParamRec SARecord;
> SInt16* outItemHit;
> Str255 dst = "\p总阈值";
> 
> CFStringRef cfS  = NULL;
> SARecord.filterProc = nil;
> SARecord.movable = true;
> SARecord.helpButton = false;
> SARecord.defaultText = "\pYes";;
> SARecord.otherText = "\pNo";;
> SARecord.cancelText = "\pCancel";;
> SARecord.defaultButton = kAlertStdAlertOKButton;
> SARecord.cancelButton = kAlertStdAlertCancelButton;
> SARecord.position = kWindowDefaultPosition;
> 
> cfS = CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault, dst,
> kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
> ConstStringPtr uStr = CFStringGetPascalStringPtr(cfS,
> CFStringGetSystemEncoding());
> 
> ::StandardAlert(kAlertNoteAlert,"\pUnicode Message" ,uStr, &SARecord,
> outItemHit);
>
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> **************************
> 
> 
> Thanks for all help.
> Regards,
> Neel

Check out CreateStandardAlert and RunStandardAlert. They use CFString 
instead of pascal strings.