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pwc
Tomato Guru

138 Posts

Posted - Oct 05 2011 : 11:00:17 AM

It would be nice to display the identifier associated with an IID value. For example, if we have this defined somewhere in our solution:


const IID IID_IKElementAnnotate	= { 0x7ac7c7b4, 0x661b, 0x4b2a, { 0xb9, 0xdc, 0x1b, 0x9c, 0xe7, 0x1e, 0xc0, 0x8b } };

And later we have a function, like QueryInterface, that takes an IID, the tooltip showing the IID value is "{7AC7C7B4-661B-4B2A-B9DC-1B9CE71EC08B}" but it would really useful to display "IID_IKElementAnnotate" instead or in addition to.

Thanks,
Paul

feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19024 Posts

Posted - Oct 05 2011 : 5:35:05 PM

Personally I am not familiar with IID's, could you post a couple of lines of code to explain what is happening here? I keep on thinking surely you just pass the const "IID_IKElementAnnotate", so you see this const name in your code when you call the function. This is how I use const's.

Or are you talking about what is shown when you are debugging a running program?

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

pwc
Tomato Guru

138 Posts

Posted - Oct 05 2011 : 5:41:01 PM

I'm talking about what's shown in the debugger while debugging. QueryInterface(IID& iid) takes a reference to an IID. If you hover over the value of the iid argument, you'll see the hex values. I'd like it to display the identifier too.