questions about data strcuture

From:
John Doe <mosfet@anonymous.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:33:29 +0200
Message-ID:
<48d39c19$0$29357$426a34cc@news.free.fr>
Hi,

I am currently developping a software where items that will be inserted
into a graphical widget ListCtrl are first defined in static array as
shown below :

enum TUiContext
{
        EUiContextMain = 0,
        EUiContextSchedule,
        EUiContextSettings,
        EUiContextSubscription,
        EUiContextCount
};

typedef struct
{
    int TextId;
    int ImgId;
    int Param;
    int nOptInfo;
    TCHAR szImgName[MAX_PATH];
} ListInfo_t, *LPListInfo_t;

ListInfo_t CMainView::ms_listInfo_Main[]=
{
    // String ID, Img, Param = CmdBarId Enabled ImgName
    { IDS_MENU_BACKUP, 0, IDM_MENU_CMDBAR_BACKUP, TRUE, _T( "" ) },
    { IDS_MENU_SCHEDULE, 2, IDM_MENU_CMDBAR_OPTIONS, TRUE, _T( "" ) },
    { IDS_MENU_RESTORE, 1, IDM_MENU_CMDBAR_RESTORE, TRUE, _T( "" ) },
    { IDS_MENU_MANAGE_SUBSCRIPTION, -1, IDM_MENU_MANAGE_SUBSCRIPTION,
TRUE, _T( "Menu_Account_Manage.png" ) },
};

ListInfo_t CMainView::ms_listInfo_Options[]=
{
    // String ID, Img, Param = CmdBarId
    { IDS_MENU_FREQUENCY, 0, IDM_MENU_SCHEDULER, TRUE, _T( "" ) },
    { IDS_MENU_CONTENT, 1, IDM_MENU_SELECTDB, TRUE, _T( "" ) },
};
....

Actually in functions of some parameters, some items won't be inserted
and the field nOptInfo is used for this purpose. If this field equals 1
it will be inserted into the List.

So I have a method called InitResources that check the config parameters
and update nOptInfo for each array.
Once this has been done, I build a vector as shown below :

void CMainView::InitResources()
{
    std::vector<ListInfo_t> vecListInfo;
    std::map<TUiContext, std::vector<ListInfo_t> > listMap;

    // Test config parameters and update nOptInfo
    ...

    //$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
    // Now build vector from ms_listInfo_Main
    //$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
    vecListInfo.clear()
    for (int i = 0; i < _countof(ms_listInfo_Main); i++)
    {
        if (ms_listInfo_Main[i].nOptInfo == TRUE){
            vecListInfo.push_back(ms_listInfo_Main[i]);
        }
    }
    listMap[ EUiContextMain ] = vecListInfo;

    //$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
    // Now build vector from ms_listInfo_Options
    //$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
    vecListInfo.clear()
    for (int i = 0; i < _countof(ms_listInfo_Options); i++)
    {
        if (ms_listInfo_Options[i].nOptInfo == TRUE){
            vecListInfo.push_back(ms_listInfo_Options[i]);
        }
    }
    listMap[ EUiContextSchedule] = vecListInfo;
    ...

}

I find all this code very ugly and I would like to suggestion to improve
it. I am doing all this because I am switching between different
graphical context and before to do it I save the index of current
selected item in my ListCtrl.

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