Adding a string into some text in a window

[digitalwarfare]

Hi. I'm Sure what I'm trying to do is simple, and the answer is staring me in the face, but after hours of googling around, my brain has turned to mush. I want a Simple this is how you do it. I'm sure I'm googling the wrong question to start with.

Take the following code snippet (out of context):

LPSTR Version = "1.0 Alpha";
MessageBoxA(hwnd, Version , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

This works fine. I get the box up, that says 1.0 Alpha, with the ok button

What I want is to append text to the box, to say somthing like 1.0 Alpha By Dave, without just editing the string.

what I was hoping for was somthing like ( I know the syntax is incorrect, but im just trying to illustrate what I'm trying to do):

LPSTR Version = "1.0 Alpha";
MessageBoxA(hwnd, Version + " By Dave" , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

Thankyou very much for any help.

the

Version + " By Dave" is the bit i cant seem to figure

Dumb question, I know

Regards, Dave

[Balrog]

MessageBoxA(hwnd, Version + " By Dave" , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

Should work the way you have it. If not, try to cast the string like so:
MessageBoxA(hwnd, Version + (LPSTR)" By Dave" , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

I haven't tested this, and I don't have much experience with unicode, so apologies if I gave you wrong information.

[digitalwarfare]

I Apologize.

I didn't even mention the actual description of the problem

The tool-tip error message is "Error: Expression must have Integral or Enum Type"


Thankyou, Balrog for the reply.

MessageBoxA(hwnd, Version + (LPSTR)" By Dave" , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

Does not work. Same issue

[digitalwarfare]

just realized somthing.

LPSTR Version = "1.0 Alpha";

is a pointer to a string (DUH), so by doing:

Version + " By Dave"

The compiler is thinking im trying to do arithmetic on the pointer, which OBVIOUSLY isn't going to Work.

I want to display two strings side by side.
very similar to

std::cout << Version << " By Dave \n"

Am I on the right track?

[cire]

std::string message(Version) ;
message += " By Dave" ;
MessageBoxA(hwnd, message.c_str() , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

[digitalwarfare]

Wonderful.

std::string message(Version) ;
message += " By Dave" ;
MessageBoxA(hwnd, message.c_str() , "ABOUT", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

Worked
Thankyou..