Need a little help with my Welcome Program

[357mag 2]

I've got a program where the user enters his first name in an Edit box. Then he presses the button entitled Show Message and I will show him a Welcome Message.

I'm having some trouble with coding the first name. Builder says Could not find a match for string::basic(const string&).

 

Here is what I have so far:

 

#include <vcl.h>
#pragma hdrstop

#include "welcome_program.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#pragma package(smart_init)
#pragma resource "*.dfm"
TFormWelcome *FormWelcome;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
__fastcall TFormWelcome::TFormWelcome(TComponent* Owner)
	: TForm(Owner)
{
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void __fastcall TFormWelcome::ButtonShowMessageClick(TObject *Sender)
{
	string firstName = AnsiString(EditFirstName->Text);
}

 

[357mag 2]

I got it going! This works:

#include <vcl.h>
#pragma hdrstop

#include "welcome_program.h"
#include <iostream>
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#pragma package(smart_init)
#pragma resource "*.dfm"
TFormWelcome *FormWelcome;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
__fastcall TFormWelcome::TFormWelcome(TComponent* Owner)
	: TForm(Owner)
{
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void __fastcall TFormWelcome::ButtonShowMessageClick(TObject *Sender)
{
	AnsiString firstName = EditFirstName->Text;
	LabelMessage->Caption = "Welcome to C++ Programming " + firstName + "!";
}

 

[Roger Cigol 103]

Same advice as the string integer posting. Use String rather than AnsiString(). You only need to use AnsiString variables if you specifically want to represent text using only 8 bit Ansi encoding. These days that is a rare occurrence.