Article 4802 Subject Re: C++ Debugger Visualizer? on embarcadero.public.cppbuilder.ide

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From:

Jon Payne

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To:

Kris Kumler

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Re: C++ Debugger Visualizer?

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embarcadero.public.cppbuilder.ide

03-Sep-2010

Re: C++ Debugger Visualizer?

> {quote:title=Moritz Beutel wrote:}{quote}
> there are some exemplary visualizers in $(BDS)\source\Visualizers . I
> also made an AnsiString visualizer by modifying the std::string
> visualizer a little; you can find it here:
> 
> http://mb.audacia-software.de/pfiles/MoreVisualizers.zip
>

Hi Moritz,

Thanks. I was really after a C++ example - I've failed, so far, to do one in C++ using the available pascal examples as guidance.

> 
> > I'd particularly like to write some for the STL containers vector and
> > map.
> 
> That won't work. The visualizer framework doesn't have good support for
> generic visualizers. (Yet.) And unfortunately it isn't possible to
> directly influence the appearance of the tooltip tree view...

Ah, that's a great shame. The visualizers aren't a patch on the MSVC ones :-( And it puts some of my colleagues off from using the STL understandably.

Thanks,
Jon

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