Re: Any way to view CPtrArray, CArray, etc in debugger?

Yes Joseph, that train of thought is *exactly* why we have 120MB bohemoth
apps that take 45 minutes to install and 30 seconds to load.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Code size is rarely relevant in a program. Unless you are doing an
embedded system, code
size should not matter at all.
joe
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:17:34 -0700, "Somebody" <somebody@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I need to avoid using template classes as much as possible since my
product
is a class library that I ship release and debug versions for. I can't go
crazy with template classes just for the hell of it since they add a lot
of
bloat to the debug version. Yes, I did get a customer complaint about that
and reduced the DLL size by 33% by switching to the non templated versions
in the majority of places.

I did sort of find another solution here:

http://www.shog9.com/log/archives/2-VS2005-DataTips-for-MFC-collection-classes-CMap,-CArray,-etc..html

Using the autoexp.dat file. Not _that_ useful since all I get is the ptrs
and I still have to typecast them in the debugger.


"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First CPtrArray is rarely good programming practice today; the pointer
probably has a
type, and a better choice would be CArray<Whatever*>. Or better still,
std::vector<Whatever*>

You can look into the array and find its data pointer and examine the
contents of the data
pointer. It's a real pain.
joe

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:56:26 -0700, "Somebody" <somebody@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there any way to view the CPtrArray, CArray, etc in the debugger?

For example, if I have:

CPtrArray arr;

<do stuff to fill array>

int i = 0; <---- break here

If I look at arr in the debugger, I can't see the contents of it... just
a
single ptr to the data. I know I can dump it out with TRACE()
statements...
but I'd like to be able to view it in the debugger too.

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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