They seem extraordinarily incomplete.
That's often the nature of free software documentation, I'm afraid. :o( The SGI stuff is OK, though.
I'm trying to figure out things that should be simple, such as how to work with the string class.
Consider using a toolkit of some sort. The C++ standard library is horrible to work with and should be avoided where possible[*]. The best toolkit on the market at the moment is Qt[*], which isn't just a GUI toolkit, it gives data structures, strings, XML handling and all sorts of other stuff. Extremely well put together, excellent documentation and hundreds of examples. If you're doing GPL software, consider using Qt. [* My opinion, others will differ.]
How do I create a string type variable within a class, and assign a value to it?
Does this help show the way?: #include <string> #include <iostream> int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { std::string s; s = "derek"; std::cout << s << "\n"; return 0; } -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003