Getting ringtone weird result

[KlaarMobileEntertainment]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the current ringtone programmatically. However when I do so the result I get is gibberish. To be exact: "f@@@ffr"

When I set the ringtone, it does work. I also have the correct capabilities (otherwise setting a ringtone would surely not work)

here's the code snippet I use:

	MProEngEngine* engine = ProEngFactory::NewEngineL();
	CleanupReleasePushL(*engine);
	MProEngProfile* activeProfile = engine->ActiveProfileL();
	CleanupReleasePushL(*activeProfile);
	MProEngTones& tones = activeProfile->ProfileTones();
	
	//query current tone
	TDesC currentTone = tones.RingingTone1();

        //convert to ascii
	TBuf<255> currentTone16(currentTone);
	TBuf8<255> currentTone8;
	currentTone8.Copy(currentTone16);

	//log the filename to check if it worked
	char *oldFilename = (char*)currentTone8.Ptr();
	int oldFilenameLength = currentTone8.Length();
	FILE *fp;
        fp = fopen("c:\\data\\others\\debug.txt","w");
	if(fp)
	{
		fwrite(oldFilename, oldFilenameLength, 1, fp);
		fclose(fp);
		fflush(fp);
	}

If anyone has a good idea, please tell me. I've been staring too long.... what am I missing? ;^)

Thanks

Reinier

[wizard_hu_]

When you write TDesC xy=something, you immediately loose the content of that something. TDesC is the abstract base class for all (16-bit) descriptors, and the only property which is common for descriptors is the length. Thus xy is going to contain the proper length of something, and that is all.
Try feeding tones.RingingTone1() directly to currentTone16.

[KlaarMobileEntertainment]

great! that was it!!!

These descriptors keep on messing with my head!
thanks for solving the puzzle!

R