Help with objects

If they r from the same class it must work by puting each member value to it's corresponing ... else [if they r not from same class] u must specify the way to overload this equality .

disable precompiled headers. If thats not it, give more info or reinstall. Also you might try g++ or the free borland one just to have a compiler while you figure out what is wrong with VC -- its always good to have 2+ compilers around anyway.

i think the problem you are facing is operator overloading. When creating objects, you need to define what each operator does to these objects and their variables. For examlpe, the assignment operator for a class Cat could mean to assign the first object's age to the others. Heres the code for this example:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Cat
{
public:
Cat();
~Cat(){}
void SetAge(int age) { itsAge = age; }
int GetAge() const { return itsAge; }
void display() const { cout << "age: " << itsAge << endl; }
Cat & operator=(const Cat &);
private:
int itsAge;
};

Cat::Cat():
itsAge(0)
{}

Cat & Cat::operator =(const Cat & rhs)
{
itsAge = rhs.GetAge();
return *this;
}

int main()
{
Cat one;
one.SetAge(8);
one.display();

Cat two;
two.display();

two = one;
two.display();
return 0;
}

Yep, thats true! you can use

itsAge = rhs.itsAge;

instead of

itsAge = rhs.GetAge();

due to the fact that the function is a member function, meaning all variables can be directly accessed. Good man for pointing it out ;)

First remember that if the target is to put the data of an object in another object of the same class , no need to overload operators ..
-The operator "=" from the class Cat once found it's by default take a "Cat" type from the left hand side , I mean when the compiler find a Cat object followed by "=" , it will go throw the function "Cat & Cat:: operator=(const Cat & rhs)" which take parameter "(const Cat & rhs)" found at the right hand side of the operator .
if there is no returns the left hand side will not change , but the return type "Cat" founded at the begin of the function satisfy that it must be changed to what the function return . hope this helps .

Thanks! That helps a lot. I got a second compiler, so I should be able to continue writing the program. :D