Description
Copies the name string without its numeric suffix into a fixed-size wide character buffer. No allocation — the wide counterpart to GetPlainANSIString.
Caveats & Gotchas
- • Must only be used when the FName was originally stored as wide (UTF-16). Calling this on an ANSI FName produces a widened copy which is functionally correct but wastes the wider storage.
- • Like GetPlainANSIString, the buffer is always NAME_SIZE (1024) wide characters — null-terminated, no length returned.
- • WIDECHAR is wchar_t on Windows (2 bytes) but may be 4 bytes on some other platforms. Ensure the receiving code handles the platform-appropriate width.
Signature
CORE_API void GetPlainWIDEString(WIDECHAR(&WideName)[NAME_SIZE]) constParameters
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| WideName | WIDECHAR(&)[NAME_SIZE] | Fixed-size wide char buffer to receive the name. Must be exactly NAME_SIZE characters. | — |
Return Type
void Example
Pass a wide name to a Win32 API that expects LPCWSTR C++
WIDECHAR WideBuf[NAME_SIZE];
MyFName.GetPlainWIDEString(WideBuf);
// WideBuf can be cast to LPCWSTR on Windows
SetWindowTextW(hWnd, (LPCWSTR)WideBuf);Tags
Version History
Introduced in: 4.0
| Version | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | stable | — |
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