Function PrintString

sdk/samples/asrun/source/main.cpp:490–516

This little function allows the script to print a string to the screen

// This little function allows the script to print a string to the screen
void PrintString(const string &str)
{
#ifdef _WIN32
	// Unless the std out has been redirected to file we'll need to allow Windows to convert
	// the text to the current locale so that characters will be displayed appropriately.
	HANDLE console = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
	DWORD mode = 0;
	if( console != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE && GetConsoleMode(console, &mode) != 0 ) 
	{
		// We're writing to a console window, so convert the UTF8 string to UTF16 and write with
		// WriteConsoleW. Windows will then automatically display the characters correctly according
		// to the user's settings
		// TODO: buffer size needs to be dynamic to handle large strings
		//       must split the string correctly between UTF8 unicode sequences
		wchar_t bufUTF16[100000];
		MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, str.c_str(), -1, bufUTF16, 100000);
		WriteConsoleW(console, bufUTF16, lstrlenW(bufUTF16), 0, 0);
	}
	else
	{
		// We're writing to a file, so just write the bytes as-is without any conversion
		cout << str;
	}
#else
	cout << str;
#endif
}

// Retrieve a line from stdin
string GetInput()