templates and inline template implementations

[twiggystardust]

Hello everyone! I got the book "SFML Game Development" by Aurthur Moreira, and I'm only on chaper 2, and it's talking about creating a template and an inline file with the extension .inl, I have no idea how to create this file. Do I just open up notepad and save the file with the .inl extension? Or is there a way to do this specifically in Visual C++ Express? Please Help. I searched google and this site to see if there was anything on this and there is not. thank you in advance

[Disch]

Do I just open up notepad and save the file with the .inl extension?

Yes... although I don't recommend notepad because it's a crappy editor.

Any text editor (including the one in VC++ Express) will do the trick. All of these files are just normal text files... the extension is just so you can see how they are used.

[twiggystardust]

Ok thanks, also do I just use #include to include it in the template or do I have to do anything else?

[Disch]

Yep, that's all you gotta do. Just #include it.

[twiggystardust]

Alright thank you very much Disch!