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Some kind of unicode support, most MS COM objects work with unicode strings, maybe something like in C+, puting L before the string is passed as unicode,

func(L"TEXT")

and maybe an unicode type .ws to do

st.ws = L"a" + L"B"

and even a WSpace(), to translate unicode results to string

text$ = WSpace(100)

func(@text$) , text$ is filled with the unicode result of func() but translated to ansi

You could download COMLIB at http://home.planet.nl/~aXend/purebasic/COMLIB_demo.zip.

COMLIB is a small library that contains 4 procedures:
- CreateObject(ProgID.s) - creates an object from a ProgID, just like VB does
- ReleaseObject(Object.l) - release the object
- Uni2Ansi(Unicode.l) - converts a Unicode string to Ansi
- Ansi2Uni(Ansistr.s) - converts an Ansi string to Unicode

You can find an example at viewtopic.php?t=11018

Thanks, i know that i can use functions but native support would save a lot of typing.

Btw, does the lib use its own string buffer or the PB buffer?

The strings are allocated by the lib, but you should free memory after use. BTW I think this is "native" PB support and COM wants pointers to Unicode instead of the Unicode strings.

you can't use unicode properly due to pb's string type (zero terminated)

yes, PB is built around LPSTR, no direct unicode support. i think at least a WSpace() should be easy to implement and very handy.

some advance in this aspect?