Problem with hide() in box class

[chiru9670]

This is the declaration of my box object:

box menu2(c, window.getwidth() * 0.6, window.getheight() - 6 );
//some code in between(unimportant)//
menu2.clear();
menu2.setheight(menu.getheight());
menu2.settcolor(GREEN);
menu2 << ui::centeralign << "Employee Management" << ui::endl << ui::endl;
menu2.settcolor(WHITE);
menu2 << "Employee Details: " << ui::endl;
menu2.settcolor(ui::tcolor);

At this point, the output is:

as expected.
Now when I hide this box, this is the output:

as expected.
After this, the following code is run:

menu2.display();
menu2 << "ID: " << e->get_id() << ui::endl;

The output here is:

as expected.
Now when I hide this box, this is the output:

which is highly unexpected.
Is there something wrong with my code, or is it something else?

[chiru9670]

Ok, I was trying to debug this a little, and I can't figure out anything from this point:
I commented out the main function of hosp.cpp, and made another main function in ui/test.cpp, which is as follows:

void main()
{
	ui::clrscr();
	box menu2(coord(2, 4), 40, 10 );
	menu2.settcolor(GREEN);
	menu2 << ui::centeralign << "Employee Management" << ui::endl << ui::endl;
	menu2.settcolor(WHITE);
	int menu2_height;
	menu2_height = 10;
//	menu2.setheight(menu2_height);
	menu2 << "View employee data" << ui::endl;
	menu2.settcolor(ui::tcolor);
//	menu2 << "Enter employee's id: ";
	unsigned long id;
	menu2 >> id;
	menu2 << ui::endl;
	menu2.setexit_button("Submit");
	menu2.loop();
	
	menu2.clear();
	menu2.setheight(15);
	menu2.settcolor(GREEN);
	menu2 << ui::centeralign << "Employee Management" << ui::endl << ui::endl;
	menu2.settcolor(WHITE);
	menu2 << "Employee Details: " << ui::endl;
	menu2.settcolor(ui::tcolor);
		getch();
		menu2.hide();
		getch();
		menu2.display();
		getch();
	menu2 << "ID: " << id << ui::endl;
		getch();
		menu2.hide();
		getch();
		menu2.display();
		getch();
}

The same problem as mentioned in the issue came up here.
Now I commented out the line menu2 << "View employee data" << ui::endl;. Here, another problem came up; menu2 << "ID: " << id << ui::endl; doesn't print the line ID: (whatever id is) at all...

[arpit-saxena]

This is quite weird. I'll have to look into it. Your code is alright

[arpit-saxena]

Something very, very weird is going on. It seems like Turbo is running out of memory here. I narrowed it down to a place where I figured the problem has to lie. The problem was in a statement that just used new to allocate heap memory, and that statement resulted in another memory space being modified, which I guess is turbo running out of memory and reallocating stuff.

[arpit-saxena]

SOMEONE NEEDS TO FIX THIS!!
ANY CLUE REGARDING WHAT'S GOING ON WOULD BE HELPFUL

[chiru9670]

You guys wanna ask some prof at IITD/IITB about this??!!

[arpit-saxena]

Asking a prof would be overkill. Let's ask some of the genius coders here. Do you know any?

I asked some people in some groups. Let's see what happens.

And... do you know where can we run turbo c++ here?

[chiru9670]

Well, I can run it on my roommate's laptop here...

[sankalpgambhir]

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