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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Blue Brown Green Red Violet Yellow Message: Forum code is on. Html is off. [quote][i]Originally posted by Blake[/i] [br]When you click on a variable, the bar at the top of the screen shows the declaration as a dropdown menu. If that type is a typedef though, it shows the name of the typedef, and not the underlying type which is sometimes more useful. A common pattern at my workplace is to have containers typedef'd so that they can be returned by things: class Foo { using BarList = FixedVector<Bar>; const BarList& GetMyList() { return m_myList; } BarList m_myList; }; But when clicking on m_myList or something that has been returned from GetMyList, the bar at the top will just say BarList m_myList, when FixedVector<Bar> might be the more useful info. Currently to find that information I have to go to the variable declaration, then if it was declared auto go to the definition of the thing it was assigned to, then click on the typename in order to see the underlying type. I would like to be able to tell that declaration line to parse typedefs, perhaps using that dropdown menu to switch between them (So the dropdown menu would have the items "BarList m_myList" and "FixedVector<Bar> m_myList" in it. Thanks, Blake [/quote]   Check to include your profile signature. Check to subscribe to this topic.