Replacing MFC

[DevLip]

Unfortunatley, long ago I got tied into the MFC world. Now regretting that mistake I'm trying to work my way back to the true way ... I have a few old classes written in C++ that I'm trying to port back to the non-MFC world. I've worked almost all of it out except I'm still using CobList. Unable to find a quick replacement I've been looking to alternatives such as creating a dll to load the class and worrying about it later but then I read that if the application is non-MFC then I will not be able to pass the class back to my functions. Looks like a dll will get me nowhere Any ideas for the easiest way to get CobList out of my code??? I do a lot of list walking, addTail, addHead calls. I'm moving over to Dev-C++ as my IDE but I still have VS available to me.

Thanks for the time,
Devan

[Graham]

std::list

[Paul McKenzie]

Originally posted by DevLip
Unfortunatley, long ago I got tied into the MFC world. Now regretting that mistake I'm trying to work my way back to the true way :D ... I have a few old classes written in C++ that I'm trying to port back to the non-MFC world. I've worked almost all of it out except I'm still using CobList. Unable to find a quick replacement

As Graham pointed out, std::list is what you're looking for. Also, if you used CString, I hope you knew about std::string.

I do a lot of list walking

Iterators

addTail

std::list::push_back()

addHead

std::list::push_front()

I'm moving over to Dev-C++ as my IDE but I still have VS available to me.

std::list is available in all ANSI C++ compilers that implement the standard C++ library. This includes VC++, Borland C++, Gnu C++, and basically any modern C++ compiler.

I suggest you pick up "The C++ Standard Library" by Nicolai Josuttis to help you learn what MFC didn't teach you with respect to using the standard container classes.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

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