<div id="readability-page-1" class="page"><div data-astro-cid-57z6rh23="">In MFC, the filename and path you get from a File Open dialog come as a <code>CString</code>.
I wanted to pass that to FMOD’s (<a href="http://www.fmod.org/">http://www.fmod.org)</a>/) <code>createSound</code> function, but its parameter type is <code>char</code>.
For example:
<pre tabindex="0" data-language="cpp"><code>CString name = "d:\path\sound.mp3";
fmodSystem-&gt;createSound((LPCTSTR)name, ....);</code></pre>
Trying to open the file and use it in fmod like this obviously throws a casting error.
But changing a Visual Studio project setting makes the error go away.
<a href="/images/articles/tt-20090716/vs-chargroup.png"><img src="https://oeoe.io/images/articles/tt-20090716/vs-chargroup.png" alt="attached image" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="839" height="545"></a>
Switch that setting to “Use Multi-Byte Character Set” (the default is Unicode).</div></div>

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In MFC, the filename and path you get from a File Open dialog come as a CString. I wanted to pass that to FMOD's (http://www.fmod.org)/) createSound…

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