Declare a contiguous Resource ID's in an array

Question

How do I declare a contiguous range of Resource ID's in an array in a header file? I'm appending these RID's to a menu.

Answer 1

All you need is an array. You can get almost the same syntax without using ugly defines:

C++11

#include <algorithm> //for std::iota
#include <array> //for std::array

//Here's an array of 10 ints, consider changing the name now
std::array<int, 10> IDM_POPUP_LAST;

//This fills the array with incrementing values, starting at 100
std::iota (std::begin (IDM_POPUP_LAST), std::end (IDM_POPUP_LAST), 100);

//Now we can use them almost like before
appendToMenu (/*...*/, IDM_POPUP_LAST[3]); //uses value 103

//We can also loop through all of the elements and add them
for (const int i : IDM_POPUP_LAST) {
    AddToLast (i);
}

C++03

#include <algorithm> // for std::for_each
#include <vector> //for std::vector

std::vector<int> IDM_POPUP_LAST (10); //make array

for (std::vector<int>::size_type i = 0; i < IDM_POPUP_LAST.size(); ++i) //loop 
    IDM_POPUP_LAST [i] = i + 100; //assign each element 100, 101, etc.

appendToMenu (/*...*/, IDM_POPUP_LAST[3]); //use an element

std::for_each (IDM_POPUP_LAST.begin(); IDM_POPUP_LAST.end(); AddToLast); //add