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PO"Shallow" display of STL containers in Visual Studio debug mode?
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copied!<p>I hit a wall while debuging my C++ class. It's a graph of sorts, something like this:</p> <pre><code>class Graph { class Node { std::map<int, Node>::iterator _neighbors[4]; }; std::map<int, Node> _map; }; </code></pre> <p>Basically, each node keeps track of exactly 4 neighbors by storing iterators to them in the containing class' map.</p> <p>The problem is that when I go to display the contents of _map in VS2008 during debugging, I get something like this:</p> <pre><code>- _map - [0] first - second - _neighbors - _ptr first - second - _neighbors - _ptr first - second - _neighbors ... </code></pre> <p>Apparently, instead of listing the 4 neighbors of the Node with index 0 in the map, it lists its first neighbor, then the first neighbor's first neighbor, then its first neighbor and so on ad infinity. Also, at no point does <code>_neighbors</code> appear as an array, even though it is declared as such.</p> <p>I found an add-on called <a href="http://vsedebug.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="VSEDebug">VSEDebug</a> that supposedly has enhanced STL display, but it's for VS2k3 and I couldn't get it to work in 2k8 (neither the binaries, nor compiling it myself).</p> <p>The immediate window isn't much help either, as trying to call <code>_map.operator[]</code> returns with <code>CXX0058: Error: overloaded operator not found</code>.</p> <p>Any ideas how I can get a meaningful display of the contents of my map? Note that I'm fairly new to VS as a whole, so I'll probably need detailed instructions. :)</p>

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