Re: Need VB str() to show debug msg.

From:
Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:19:11 +0200
Message-ID:
<vlukm3-7j4.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>
Boki wrote:

Ulrich Eckhardt ???

- [C/C++] sprintf/swprintf/_stprintf
Just look at the docs/MSDN.

- [C++] std::stringstream
These can be used to format anything that has overloaded operator<< for
them.


Can these run in WIN32 app ?
I got error C2065: 'sprintf' : undeclared identifier


Okay, first thing to do is that you read the documentation in the MSDN
(http://msdn.microsoft.com, there is also a Firefox plugin that makes
searching there even quicker). There, when you scroll down, you will see
two prerequisites to use this function: the required headers (#include<>
those) and the required libs (add these to the linker input in the project
settings if you get unresolved symbols while linking). The same applies to
the use of std::stringstreams, in case you write C++ code (which you
neither confirm nor deny).

Just a little confusing... I believe everyone need to debug integers..

but in Win32 app, it is very inconvinent to debug it ( because I can
only use TextOut to output a string )


You can also watch variables in the debugger, though that's not always
applicable.

Could you please advice which method are you using ?


Depends:
- Logfiles, using fprintf in C or std::ofstream in C++.
- Writing to stdout/stderr (using printf in C or iostreams in C++).
- Writing to the debug-trace of the IDE (using OutputDebugString() in C and
an iostream wrapper around it in C++).
- TRACE() macro in MFC projects (it's in fact a wrapper around
OutputDebugString, too, but with a printf-style syntax).

Uli

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