About MFC and character set

anonymous_user_26fc1587 · September 24, 2015, 1:22pm

Hi All,

I’ve successfully build UE4 on Windows 7 64 but wanted to know the followings:

does UE4Editor make use of MFC?
does UE4Editor use ‘multi-byte’ or ‘unicode’ character set?

Thanks!

iniside · September 25, 2015, 7:23am

MFC = Microsoft Foundation Classes ? - then no.

BrUnO_XaVIeR · September 25, 2015, 8:47am

The engine uses its own set, TChar. But you can convert from/to utf8 when std:: is needed, although should avoid using std at all. You won’t be able to use anything from .NET unless you want your project completely tied to windows and tons of packaging problems.

enlight_2014 · October 2, 2015, 4:32pm

Unicode, so TCHAR is actually wchar_t.

jwatte · October 2, 2015, 4:42pm

Unreal Engine has its own windowing/GUI system. The benefit is that it runs on all platforms where the games run. The draw-back is that you’ll have to learn it if you want to build GUIs.