has anyone found that you can no longer do searches using 1.7.3
the search button just doesn't do anything at all anymore

(From Alex: Um, what's that got to do with me and the bug I'm working on?)

Its always going to be harder to write C++ in a big project, which almost always has its own API, standards, tweaks etc - C++ is almost infinitely flexible, and every project takes a different slice on it - making it virtually a different language. I have worked on big commercial projects that used C++, and they were a lot more complex than "Learn C++ in a short period of time" style examples.

I personally prefer "simple" C++, I code Windows/Console apps directly against the lowest level API I can find Win32API/STDIO - structure it however I want, and stick to simple class's - no COM stuff etc. If you need more than that, you probably want to pick a higher level language...