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From: Mike Collins
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:40

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Hi all, just a quick question, getting myself a bit confussed.

I'm using a native api call that is expecting a PVOID value to indicate a 
string value in it's parameters.  The documentation states:

Data
Pointer to a caller-allocated buffer containing the data for the value 
entry.
DataSize
Specifies the size in bytes of the Data buffer. If Type is any of the 
REG_XXX_SZ, this value must include the terminating zero(s).

Can someone explain to me how to achieve this using the WideString or 
AnsiString data types that are available - I need to dynamically alocate the 
values as I'll only know them at runtime.

Hope this isn't to vague,

Mike Collins

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