Comments on: CSimpleBuf, a C++ utility class under BSD license

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:02:52 +0000

Any objections against a conversion to Delphi?…if I ever got time.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:08:08 +0000

By: nn

nn — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:43:15 +0000

Oops – my and tags got clobbered during submit…

You should know the reference.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:46:12 +0000

a.) what does that have to do with MS? With no big effort this class is fully portable, for example right now it also works with BCB 6.
b.) it isn’t just a good buffer for strings, it can hold arrays of just about anything.
c.) Let’s say you don’t use MFC/ATL already, then this class offers a slim substitute that can also be abused for strings, but also as ordinary buffer.
d.) Let’s say you use MFC/ATL: have you ever worked with CString as a buffer to be passed to APIs? It’s tedious.

In all those cases this buffer class comes in. Surely, in most projects I’d go for std:string (and friends), not even CString, but even there, the c_str() member function gives you a constant buffer, so you’d have to cast that away (ugly!) or use std::stringbuf (where it gets tedious again) in order to talk to APIs that want buffers.

By: nn

nn — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:47:53 +0000

Doesn’t Microsoft have perfectly good string classes that we can use?

Why do we need another one?