New operating system...

[abdul]

HI GUYS! I have almost finished my third operating system. It will be free for all. A lot of SKINS. BEST SERVER.

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What does this symbol mean:?


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And another question. How do you put smilies(faces) in the message which you post in this forum?

[SteveCRM]

its is used in classes for constructors and deconstructors...to construct one you would do this:

class MAN
{
   int addAge(int age);
};

man::addAge
{
   ///do all the function stuff here
} 

and smilies are in the faq

Actually Steve, it's for accessing a member in a class.

cout.setf(ios::fixed);

In the above code, ios is the class, and you are accessing the fixed constant of it.

Here is another example:

class myclass {
myclass(); //constructor
~myclass(); //destructor
int dostuff(); //function
};

myclass::myclass()
{
}

myclass::~myclass()
{
}

int myclass::dostuff()
{
return(5);
}

[SteveCRM]

Damn....the one question I can answer I get wrong...sorry abdul

[parksie]

It's called the Scope Resolution Operator. It covers a lot more than just classes -- it also covers structs and namespaces. For example, if you have a namespace and want to call a global function with the same name as one of yours, you need it like this:

namespace parksie {
    void Sleep(int param) {
        ::Sleep(6000);
    }
};