If you put many TRACE’s, in your code, it might be very convenient to jump to each one of them by double clicking a text line in the Debug window.
//With IMMsgBox function one can Drop an "interactive" message on aScreen,//or a message in Debug window#include "stdafx.h"#include #include #define DROP_SCREEN 0#define DROP_DEBUG_MSG -1#define DROP_DBG_MSG_TRACEBLE -2#define TRACE_HERE __FILE__, -__LINE__int IMMsgBox(char * Caption, int Type, char * FormatString, ...){ char Text[1024], TracedText[1500]; va_list pArgList; va_start(pArgList, FormatString); vsprintf(Text, FormatString, pArgList); va_end(pArgList); if(Type <= DROP_DBG_MSG_TRACEBLE) { sprintf(TracedText, "
%s(%d): - %s
", Caption, (-1) * Type, Text); OutputDebugString(TracedText); return Type; } if(Type >= DROP_SCREEN) return MessageBox(NULL, Text, Caption, Type); if(Type == DROP_DEBUG_MSG) { OutputDebugString(Text); return Type; } return -1;}int main(){ if(IMMsgBox("Caption", DROP_SCREEN + (MB_YESNOCANCEL | MB_ICONQUESTION), "Text containing int %d double %f and string %s", 123, -1.234, "ABCDefg") == IDYES) MessageBox(NULL, "You've clicked Yes", "Hi, User", MB_OK); IMMsgBox(NULL, DROP_DEBUG_MSG, "Text containing int %d double %f and string %s", 123, -1.234, "ABCDefg"); IMMsgBox(TRACE_HERE, "Text containing int %d double %f and string %s",123, -1.234, "ABCDefg"); return 0;} 
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