Re: std::vector : begin, end and insert - Using Objects instead of ints

From:
MrAsm <mrasm@usa.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:41:49 GMT
Message-ID:
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:16:45 -0700, "Nobody" <Nobody@yahoo.com> wrote:

A Test of the emergency broadcast


Readable code here :)

std::vector<CPoint> m_Pts;


I prefer typedef'ing this, something like:

typedef std::vector<CPoint> PointList;
PointList m_Pts;

So you can have e.g. PointList::iterator, which is IMHO more readable,
more elegant and shorter than std::vector<CPoint>::iterator.

std::vector<CPoint>::const_iterator m_cIter;
// *c1_cIter = 200; Error. c1_cIter is constant.


Because: 1) you used a const_iterator [try using iterator if you want
to modify objects]; 2) your iterators are not int's.

m_cIter = m_Pts.begin();
TRACE("Position of Iterator: %d\n", *m_cIter);


This is wrong.
Please understand that *Iter in this case is a CPoint instance (or
reference to instance).
Would you write:

  CPoint myPoint;
  TRACE("My point is: %d\n", myPoint);

?

I hope you wouldn't.
(Because CPoint is not an int, and the TRACE format specifier is %d,
so for int's.)

For the same reason, your above code with iterator is wrong.
Think the iterator as a kind of "pointer" to vector items.
If you dereference the pointer with operator *, you can access the
pointed vector item.

std::vector<CPoint>::iterator m_Iter;
m_Iter = m_Pts.begin();
TRACE("Position of Iterator: %d\n", *m_Iter);


Error, as above.

for (UINT i = 0; i < m_Pts.size(); i++)


Should be "size_t i = 0...".

{
 CPoint& rPt = m_Pts.at(i);
 TRACE("Pt[%d] Pt.x %d, Pt.y %d\n", i, rPt.x, rPt.y);
}


This is correct.
You could also avoid the temporary reference, and just write:

  TRACE(
    "Pt[%d]: x = %d, y = %d\n", i,
    m_Pts.at(i).x,
    m_Pts.at(i).y
  );

for(m_Iter = m_Pts.begin(); m_Iter < m_Pts.end(); m_Iter++)


Better using "++m_Iter".
And "m_Iter != m_Pts.end()"

{
 CPoint& pt = m_Pts.at(*m_Iter);


This is wrong.

at() expects the integer position of vector slot.
(e.g. at(0), at(1), at(2), ... at(Size-1))

Do something like this:

  for ( m_Iter = m_Pts.begin();
        m_Iter != m_Pts.end();
       ++m_Iter )
  {
    TRACE("Pt: x = %d, y = %d\n",
      (*m_Iter).x, // (*m_Iter) <-> CPoint
      (*m_Iter).y
    );
  }

HTH

MrAsm

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