ToDoList Add-on

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Add-on find dialog:

To-do cached add-on was designed to simplify developer’s tasks, like debugging and code management. As a result of my work a Visual Studio Add-on component was created. It makes some things easier.

Debugging Features

Main feature of Debugging is STL containers expanding. This add-on supports debugging of such STL containers:

•      std::vector
•      std::list
•      std::map
•      std::multimap
•      std::set
•      std::multiset

Also special debugging features were added they add support of very long strings to Visual C++ debugger. Add-on fixes Visual C++ Debugger limitation to string output. (Visual C++ debugger can show only 242 symbols of the string). This Add-on can expand very long strings (more than 65536 symbols):

•      CString (MFC Class)
•      std::string
•      BSTR and WCHAR*
•      bstr_t (COM support class)
•      char *
•      CComBSTR (ATL Class)

Add-on is also capable of showing XML long strings with user friendly formatting/indenting. It also supports quick find by simple string or RegExp (Regular Expressions). In Find Dialog any part of the string can be copied to the system clipboard for the future use of developer.

Code Management Features

Add-on has special features which can be used to manage Visual C++ project source code. In simple words it looks like:

Developer adds a comment with special signature, like: // TODO: after such keyword the task description could be written. Add-on can support as many keywords as developer wants. The main advantage of this Visual C++ add-on is that it parses comments. Add-on parses all comments in source code, checks commented strings for needed keywords and displays results. Add-on is capable of distinguishing comments of two types // - single line and /* - multi line comments. Each keyword used in Add-on must start from '//' or '/*' symbols - if you want to parse comments only, and from any other symbol if you want to parse full source code.

All Results of parsing are cached and updated when developer save changes to file. That is why add-on have name To-Do Cached. Results of its work are printed into Macro tab of output window. Find needed string in output window and make a double click on it to proceed to that string in your source code. Add-on also understands multi line comments written as a list of single line comments, example:

// TODO: -- start -- write code which do something special and with context and
 // and continue work -- end --

Add-on will interpret such comment as a long one comment and will display it by one line. Results of work can be sorted and filtered.

Toolbar look's like:

	Show Results	This is a first button in toolbar (direction from left to right). Press this button to display results of keywords search in Macro tab of output window. It’s a pity but I still don’t know how to set active Macro tab on button press. That is why after press you must change tab to Macro manually
	Reparse Workspace	Press this button to free the cache of add-on. Needed only when there are too much files in workspace. Don’t open Option dialog after that– according to add-on logic, it will have to parse the workspace again to display statistics.
	Options Dialog	Some of the add-on’s features can be configured using Option Dialog.
	Tabify all files	On press add-on will automatically open all files in active project and change all spaces in files to tabs.
	Untabify all files	Reverse process of Tabify action. Add-on will open all files of active project and change all tabs to spaces.
	STL Debug Dialog	Open STL Debug Dialog of add-on. On button press add-on will try to locate variable in currently opened source file by selection or by cursor position.

Example of application tested with STL and C++ classes datatypes.

#pragma warning( disable : 4786 )

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <list>
#include <set>
#include <queue>
#include <deque>
#include <stack>

#include <comutil.h>
#include <atlbase.h>

typedef std::string string;

// map types
typedef std::map<long, string>    TLongStr;
typedef std::map<string, string > TStrStr;
typedef std::map<long, long>      TLongLong;

// multimap types
typedef std::multimap<long, string>   TMLongStr;
typedef std::multimap<long, long>     TMLongLong;
typedef std::multimap<string, string> TMStrStr;

// vector types
typedef std::vector<string> TVStr;
typedef std::vector<long>   TVLong;

// list types
typedef std::list<string> TLStr;
typedef std::list<long>   TLLong;

// set
typedef std::set<long>        TSLong;
typedef std::set<string>      TSStr;
typedef std::multiset<long>   TMsLong;
typedef std::multiset<string> TMsStr;


#define DEF_TEST_STRING "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\r\n\t\v\b"
#define STR_DEF_TEST  string( DEF_TEST_STRING )

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
  char buffer[ 8192 ];
  
  // maps
  TLongLong   mapLL;  TLongStr    mapLS;  TStrStr     mapSS;
  TMLongLong  mmapLL; TMLongStr   mmapLS; TMStrStr    mmapSS;

  // list, vector
  TLLong      listL;  TLStr       listS;
  TVStr       vecS;   TVLong      vecL;

  // set, multiset
  TSLong      setL;   TSStr      setS;
  TMsLong     msetL;  TMsStr      msetS;

  string    strValue = DEF_TEST_STRING;

  for( int j=0; j<10; j++ )
    strValue += strValue;

  const char * czBuffTestLongVariableNamesWithSomething = strValue.c_str( );
  CString   cstrClass = czBuffTestLongVariableNamesWithSomething;
  CComBSTR  combstr = cstrClass;  
  BSTR      bstr = combstr;
  bstr_t    TBstr = bstr;

  for( long i = 0; i<4000; i++ )
  {
    sprintf( buffer, "%04d - ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" , i );
    string temp = buffer;

    mapLL.insert( TLongLong::value_type( i, i+1 ) );
    mapLS.insert( TLongStr::value_type( i, temp ) );
    mapSS.insert( TStrStr::value_type( temp, temp ) );

    mmapLL.insert( TMLongLong::value_type( i, i+1 ) );
    mmapLL.insert( TMLongLong::value_type( i, i ) );
    mmapLS.insert( TMLongStr::value_type( i, temp ) );
    mmapLS.insert( TMLongStr::value_type( i, temp ) );
    mmapSS.insert( TMStrStr::value_type( temp, temp ) );
    mmapSS.insert( TMStrStr::value_type( temp, temp ) );

    listL.push_back( i );
    listS.push_back( temp );
    vecL.push_back( i );
    vecS.push_back( temp );
    
    setL.insert( i );
    setS.insert( temp );
    
    msetL.insert( i );
    msetL.insert( i );

    msetS.insert( temp );
    msetS.insert( temp );
  }

  return 0;
}

History

Date Posted: 17/Aug/2001
First article was posted to CodeProject
From that moment many things were changed and new functionality added.

Updated: 7/Sep/2001
Tons of changes.

Updated: 20/Jan/2002
More changes.

Updated: 21/Apr/2002
Updated download package