Re: Streaming message box

From:

"mlimber" <mlimber@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

7 Jun 2006 07:36:58 -0700

Message-ID:

<1149691018.644334.276250@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

CedricCic...@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings!

I have just returned to C++ after a couple of years in the FoxPro and
C# worlds. I am trying to adapt and expand existing code. For
debugging and just plain understanding the code I'm working with, I'd
like to put little message boxes into the code. It seems a pain to
declare a character array, write my message into it, and then call
AfxMessageBox() to dispaly it. It seems to me that it would be easy to
create a stream-based messagebox class that I could use as follows:

StreamMessageBox << "My value is " << MyValue;

This would pop up a simple message box with a single OK button and my
message. It should be easy to add manipulators to this class to select
icons and use different button sets.

Does such a thing exist? If so, where can I get it?

Thanks very much!

RobR

Well, you're talking about a platform-specific library since Standard
C++ doesn't have anything but text/binary I/O. Thus, you should ask in
a Microsoft newsgroup about the existence of such a library. See this
FAQ for some possibilities:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.9

But, you're right that it shouldn't be too hard to add that. I suspect
you'll need to always have a manipulator at the end, however, to
indicate that you're done appending the message and that it should now
be displayed.

Cheers! --M