A cross between std::multimap and std::vector?

Posted by Milan Babuškov on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Milan Babuškov
Published on 2010-05-30T11:26:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/30 11:32 UTC
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I'm looking for a STL container that works like std::multimap, but has constant access time to random n-th element. I need this because I have such structure in memory that is std::multimap for many reasons, but items stored in it have to be presented to the user in a listbox. Since amount of data is huge, I'm using list box with virtual items (i.e. list control polls for value at line X).

As a workaround I'm currently using additional std::vector to store "indexes" into std::map, and I fill it like this:

std::vector<MMap::data_type&> vec;
for (MMap::iterator it = mmap.begin(); it != mmap.end(); ++it)
    vec.push_back((*it).second);

But this is not very elegant solution.

Is there some such containter?

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