Re: Problem with Boost iterators

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
3 Nov 2006 01:14:29 -0500
Message-ID:
<021120062300085809%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1162348295.249095.231880@e64g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
<michael.alexeev@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am running into the compilation error (gcc 4.0.2 Suse Linux) while
trying to compile the following simple program:

#include <boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp>

struct Pixel { int _abc;};

class PixelIterator :
  public boost::iterator_facade< PixelIterator, Pixel,
boost::random_access_traversal_tag >
{
public:
  friend class boost::iterator_core_access;
  explicit PixelIterator() : _prPixel() {}
  explicit PixelIterator(Pixel * iprPixel) : _prPixel(iprPixel) {}
  void increment(){++_prPixel;}
  void decrement(){--_prPixel;}
  bool equal(const PixelIterator& iOther) const{ return _prPixel ==
iOther._prPixel; }
  Pixel& dereference() const{return *_prPixel;}
  void advance(int iDist){_prPixel += iDist;}
  uint distance_to(const PixelIterator& iOther) const{return
iOther._prPixel - _prPixel;}
private:
  Pixel * _prPixel;
};

int main()
{
  Pixel p[10];
  PixelIterator it(p);
  it[1]._abc = 1;
}

The error message is
 'class boost::detail::operator_brackets_proxy<PixelIterator>' has
no member named '_abc

The Boost website is currently unavailable to look-up the documentation
but I am pretty match sure that the semantic of operator[] (int dist)
is *(it +dist). And indeed if I replace the last line in main with
(*(it+1))._abc = 1;

the error goes away.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Mike

   The docs do state that if the proxy solution is not needed as in
your case your class can define operator [] and it will be used instead
of the operator[] supplied by iterator_facade. So if you add
   Pixel & operator [] (int n) {return *(_prPixel+n);} to Pixelterator
it will work since nothing is really destroyed here...

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