Hello, i am in the process of making a small game as a personnal project and am currently building a system to manage game ressources such as textures, models, sounds... So i figured i would use C++ templates to do so. I made a template <typename T> Ressource<T> class which holds a pointer to the said ressource (sound, texture ... ) aswell as a reference count and some really basic functionnality. Above that i have a RessourceManager<T> class that manages ressources of type T using a std::map and reference counting mecanisms. Now what i would like to do is the following (inside the RessourceManager<T> class): std::map<std::string, Ressource<T>*> ressource_map; A ressource would be added by name in the ressource manager, if the name already exists dont add the ressource, just use it. The problem is that whenever i try to use an iterator on the above ressource_map, std::map<std::string, Ressource<T>*>::iterator i get the following problem: "ressourcemanager.h:40: erreur: expected `;' before «iter"" line 40 being: std::map<std::string, Ressource<T>*>::iterator iter; So can i use 'nested' templates like this? (template inside an std::map). Is there a simpler way to make a Ressource manager? Thanks in advance. [Edited by - Saya on February 28, 2008 10:29:24 AM]

The iterator is dependant on the template type.

typename std::map<std::string, Ressource<T>*>::iterator iter;

edit: too slow
Anyway I would also typedef the iterator

Thanks alot guys, you answered fast! It compiles fine now :) !

Btw you made me realise that Resource takes only one s in english! thanks for that too (french here...).

Thanks switfcoder i'll do it that way.
Btw it should be :
typedef typename map_t::iterator iterator_t;
no?