So, I can switch to stlsoft from stlport?

No.

STLSoft is not a replacement for the standard library. It is an extension of the concepts of STL into different technology areas, currently including ATL, COM, MFC, UNIX and Win32. (There are others, but they're not mature.) It does, as well, have stuff that's general, such as frame-string, fixed-2 & 3 d arrays, string-tokeniser, etc. etc., but it's fair to say that the main thrust is to apply STL to other things.

A couple of good examples are WinSTL's findfile_sequence, and COMSTL's simple_enum_sequence. The first wraps the Win32 FindFile api into an STL-like sequence that provides Input Iterators (also does Forward ones, but they're less efficient). The second is a policy-based gizmo for wrapping arbitrary COM enumerators into STL-like sequences providing Input or Forward (policy-based) Iterators.

There's also one last part that's salient to this. As you may know, the implementation behind the standard libraries provided by many of the compiler vendors are quite different. In particular, VC 5, 6, and 7 all do nasty things. STLSoft provides a set of classes - in stlsoft_iterator.h - such as iterator_base, const_reverse_bidirectional_iterator_base, pointer_iterator that handles all that evil filth (check out that file, if you don't know just how evil!) for you, so you can write your sequences confident that you'll compile with Borland, DMC++, Intel, GCC, MSVC, Metrowerks, etc. etc.




"Jim Jennings" <jwjenn@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:b72djo$1jgm$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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"Matthew Wilson" <dmd@synesis.com.au> wrote in message news:b72fg7$1kl8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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With your comments in mind I will look it over. (I did download it a couple
of days ago.)

Well, the chm documentation is kinda dry. Your PDF articles about shims etc
are nice, but a section with some sample code (where these concepts could be
applied [thru stlsoft, of course]) would be really helpful.
- Rajiv



"Jim Jennings" <jwjenn@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:b72n44$1p5e$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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Plead guilty on the HTML help. I claim the mitigation of it being a marathon effort, and I intend to give each separate component a test program

As for the Shims stuff, I can't really give a full explanation in the PDFs, as its in an article that CUJ are intending to print in their August issue. That does not, of course, stop me giving test programs, and I certainly plan to do so over the coming weeks.

Thanks for taking the trouble to go through it.

Matthew


"Rajiv Bhagwat" <dataflow@vsnl.com> wrote in message news:b75nms$mi1$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Well, the chm documentation is kinda dry. Your PDF articles about shims
etc
> are nice, but a section with some sample code (where these concepts could
be
> applied [thru stlsoft, of course]) would be really helpful. - Rajiv
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> "Jim Jennings" <jwjenn@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:b72n44$1p5e$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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