Inspecting STL containers in Xcode

Question

From googling around it looks like Xcode (3.1 in my case) should be at least trying to give me a sane debug view of STL containers - or at least vectors.

However, whenever I go to look at a vector in the debugger I just see M_impl, with M_start and M_finish members (and a couple of others) - but nothing in-between! (it's a debug build, btw).

Am I missing a setting or something somewhere?

I've also read that there are macros available that can augment the debug viewer even further to inspect more complex containers - but have been unable to find any.

I'd also like to be able to view std::wstrings, without having to drop to the memory viewer. It shows std::string fine. Is there anything I can do to show std::wstring?

I realise this is a bit of a composite question - but it's all really part of the same subject.

Answer 1

You can create Data formatters for different variable types so they show up nicer :-).