have you thought about doing sequences over SAFEARRAY's?

maybe not complete SAFEARRAY's but single dimension ones

> have you thought about doing sequences over SAFEARRAY's?

Many times. Just not got round to it.

I'll bump it up on the list. ;)

"Pablo Aguilar" <paguilarg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c5f5m8$1813$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> have you thought about doing sequences over SAFEARRAY's?
>
>

"Matthew" <matthew@stlsoft.org> wrote in message news:c5g4k2$2ou5$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Many times. Just not got round to it.
>
> I'll bump it up on the list. ;)

Glad to know... I cooked up something quick to work in the meantime...

I'm finally getting into REALLY using stlsoft, and I'll be letting you know
all comments I come up with..
To start, I've got a question about why you chose to do functionals (like
listbox_add_inserter) as, well, functions, to use with for_each and not
iterators (in the spirit of back_inserter and alike) to use with copy or
transform? or can you use 'em like that anyway and I couldn't figure out
how? I figure you thought about both ways, so I'm curious as to why the
choice...

Here's a very rough first draft. It presents all elements from N dimensions in a single iterable (forward or backwards) sequence. It does not own the SAFEARRAY.

"Pablo Aguilar" <paguilarg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c5hoe6$243r$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Matthew" <matthew@stlsoft.org> wrote in message news:c5g4k2$2ou5$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Many times. Just not got round to it.
> >
> > I'll bump it up on the list. ;)
>
> Glad to know... I cooked up something quick to work in the meantime...
>
> I'm finally getting into REALLY using stlsoft, and I'll be letting you
know
> all comments I come up with..
> To start, I've got a question about why you chose to do functionals (like
> listbox_add_inserter) as, well, functions, to use with for_each and not
> iterators (in the spirit of back_inserter and alike) to use with copy or
> transform? or can you use 'em like that anyway and I couldn't figure out
> how? I figure you thought about both ways, so I'm curious as to why the
> choice...
>
>

Seems to be working fine...

It treats the elements in all dimensions as a single sequence, right? works fine for me right now, I've got single dimension arrays only...

Great work, thanks...

> Here's a very rough first draft. It presents all elements from N
dimensions
> in a single iterable (forward or backwards) sequence. It does not own the
> SAFEARRAY.

Pleasure.

Naturally I'll look to expand it in several ways in the future, but I think it's a good STL-isation of safe-arrays for the moment. Glad that you agree .... ;)

"Pablo Aguilar" <paguilarg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c617n2$19ba$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Seems to be working fine...
>
> It treats the elements in all dimensions as a single sequence, right?
works
> fine for me right now, I've got single dimension arrays only...
>
> Great work, thanks...
>
> > Here's a very rough first draft. It presents all elements from N
> dimensions
> > in a single iterable (forward or backwards) sequence. It does not own
the
> > SAFEARRAY.
>
>

"Pablo Aguilar" <paguilarg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c5hoe6$243r$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Matthew" <matthew@stlsoft.org> wrote in message news:c5g4k2$2ou5$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Many times. Just not got round to it.
> >
> > I'll bump it up on the list. ;)
>
> Glad to know... I cooked up something quick to work in the meantime...
>
> I'm finally getting into REALLY using stlsoft, and I'll be letting you know
> all comments I come up with..
> To start, I've got a question about why you chose to do functionals (like
> listbox_add_inserter) as, well, functions, to use with for_each and not
> iterators (in the spirit of back_inserter and alike) to use with copy or
> transform? or can you use 'em like that anyway and I couldn't figure out
> how? I figure you thought about both ways, so I'm curious as to why the
> choice...

Habit and truculence, probably. I am aware that I do bias towards for_each() a
lot.

It would be *very* helpful if you could identify a few cases where you think it's inappropriate, and suggest an alternative (presumably based on std::copy or std::transform). That could help me a lot.

Cheers

Matthew

Maybe you'd want to check Andrei Alexandrecu's automation_vector.  It is a very complete wrapper over SAFEARRAY with an STL interface.

Try:
http://www.moderncppdesign.com

Then go to Publications.  The article was published on CUJ in April 1999.

There's a minor bump if you compile the source code with VC7 or VC7.1 compilers, but nothing major.

Regards,

Javier Estrada

mailto:developeer.com@ljestrada