- * Split a complete command line into argc/argv, attempting to do
- * it exactly the same way Windows itself would do it (so that
- * console utilities, which receive argc and argv from Windows,
- * will have their command lines processed in the same way as GUI
- * utilities which get a whole command line and must break it
- * themselves).
+ * Handy wrapper around GetDlgItemText which doesn't make you invent
+ * an arbitrary length limit on the output string. Returned string is
+ * dynamically allocated; caller must free.
+ */
+char *GetDlgItemText_alloc(HWND hwnd, int id)
+{
+ char *ret = NULL;
+ int size = 0;
+
+ do {
+ size = size * 4 / 3 + 512;
+ ret = sresize(ret, size, char);
+ GetDlgItemText(hwnd, id, ret, size);
+ } while (!memchr(ret, '\0', size-1));
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Split a complete command line into argc/argv, attempting to do it
+ * exactly the same way the Visual Studio C library would do it (so
+ * that our console utilities, which receive argc and argv already
+ * broken apart by the C library, will have their command lines
+ * processed in the same way as the GUI utilities which get a whole
+ * command line and must call this function).