Thread: Stupid Me...... Crashes

Is it possible, from looking at this ....thing.... from my program, to tell if this goodamn function has a bug? it compiles, but when i try and run it in main..... results are spectacular. Program crashes (not winblows tho), once i got beeps, blah.

Code:

class GuiElement {
public :
	bool OutOfBounds	();						//Returns true if box will not fit on screen.	
	
	//Appearance Accessors
	int ChangeColor		( int ArgBox, int ArgHead, int ArgText );
	int ChangeThickness ( bool ArgThickness );
	int ChangeSizePos	( int ArgXPos, int ArgYPos, int ArgXSize, int ArgYSize );
	int ChangePosition	( int ArgPos, int ArgYPos );
	int ChangeSize		( int ArgXSize, int ArgYSize );
protected :
	//Appearance Characteristics
	unsigned short int 	BoxColor;				//Colour the box will be
	unsigned short int 	HeaderColor;			//Colour the header will be
	unsigned short int 	TextColor;				//Colour text will be
	bool				Thickness;				//Thickness of box ( single or double )
	//size/position
	int	XPos;
	int	YPos;
	int	XSize;
	int	YSize;
};

class TextBox : public GuiElement{
public :
	//Output
	virtual int Display			();								//displays as a textbox with.... box.
	int Range			( int ArgStart, int ArgEnd );	//Displays a given portion of the text string without the box.
	//Editing Functions
	int Prepend			( string szArgText );			//Add to the start
	int Append			( string szArgText );			//Add to the end
	int Rewrite			( string szArgText );			//Totally rewrites contents of string.
	int ChangeHeader	( string szArgHeader );			//Totally rewrites header string.
	
	//Error Checking Functions : as well as returning true, they will also output a log to a file
//	bool TextSizeIllegal();								//Returns true if size of text exceeds what can fit in box.
//	bool HeaderIllegal	();								//Returns true if header wil not fit.
protected :
	//Text
	string szHeader;									//Holds the header
	string szText;										//Holds the actual text
};

int TextBox::Display()
{
	Draw Draw;
	Draw.ChangeColor		( BoxColor );
	Draw.Box				( XPos, YPos, XSize, YSize, Thickness );
	Draw.CursorLocation		( XPos + 1, YPos + 1 );		//relocate the curosr to the top left corner of teh box
	Draw.ChangeColorGlobal	( HeaderColor );
	cout.write				( szHeader.c_str(), XSize - 2 );	//Make sure you dont write over the box
	Draw.CursorLocation		( XPos + 1, YPos + 2 );
	int i;
	int j;
	int k;
	for ( i = 0 ; i < YSize - 2 ; i++ )
		{
   		Draw.CursorLocation ( XPos + 1, YPos + 2 + i);
		 for ( j = 0 ; j < XSize - 2 ; j++ )
		 	{
		 	
		 	if ( szText [k] == 32 || j == XSize - 3 )
		 		cout << "-";
			else
		 		cout << szText [k];
			k++;
		 	}
		}
   	return 0;
}

if you took the time to read all of this uncommented..... kudos to you (what is a kudo??)

Thanks for the couple of hours youll spend scratching your head in confusion and derision :)

(edit) sorry about the tabs - they look fine in my IDE.... i have weird settings on tabs.

SCHIEZER!! i havent figgerd out the debugger on devc++ yet - all i can do is set break points and look at thebacktrace.....
thanks

ok, so that didnt fix it. i scattered pauses all through.....

SCHIEZER - more uninitialised variables! all through the damn thing!!!

thanks for helping find the base source of my woes though.