We created a new tutorial which explains the usage of the container classes and other important basics. You can find the Tutorial #09: Container & Basics in chapter one of the tutorials section.

Be warned, this tutorial is huge and covers the following topics:

Text Output, Strings

• Console text output.
• Debug & error messages
• String class
• UTF-8 Strings
• String manipulation
• String conversion
• String helper objects and helper functions

Container

• NTL container versus STL container
• Simple container versus object container
• Array & ObjectArray class
• Index & ObjectIndex class
• Map & ObjectMap class

Time

• Time and date
• Time measurement (benchmarks)

Miscellaneous

• Sorting
• Data class

Utility Functions

• Math functions
• Utility functions
• System::CLib functions
• Memory manipulation

Pointer

• SharedPointer
• AutoPointer
• WeakPointer