trying to get basic_ostream template to use TCHARs

The below code is not the way I want to have ostream/wostream managed by the #define _UNICODE for ansi or unicode but it appears to work. I've only done simple testing and would have to add more #defines for cerr, wcerr, clog, etc... After that not so pretty code there's another that attempts use the basic_ostream template and the error I'm getting. Once I get that going I can work on basic_istream.

Code:

#include "stdafx.h"
#define _UNICODE  
#include <tchar.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;
#ifdef _UNICODE
	#define TCOUT wcout
	#define TCIN  wcin
#else
	#define TCOUT cout
	#define TCIN cin
#endif

typedef basic_string<TCHAR> tstring;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	TCOUT << _T("Enter anything: ") << endl;
	
	tstring z;
	TCIN >> z;

	TCOUT << z << endl;

	tstring f =  _T( "test" );
	TCOUT << f << endl;

	return 0;
}

The way I'd like to get things working:

Code:

#include "stdafx.h"
#define _UNICODE  //must be before tchar.h
#include <tchar.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

typedef basic_string<TCHAR> tstring;

typedef basic_ostream<TCHAR, char_traits<TCHAR> > tostream;


tostream tcout();

inline tostream& operator<< (tostream& os, 
                            const tstring& tstring)
{
	os << tstring.data( );

	return os;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{

	tstring s = _T("Test");
	tcout << s << endl;

	return 0;
}

This gives the error:
error C2678: binary '<<' : no operator defined which takes a left-hand operand of type '' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

thanks

dan

Code:

inline tostream& operator<< (tostream& os, 
                            const tstring& tstring)
{
	os << tstring.data( );

	return os;
}

You're using here defined type 'tstring' as a variable name (const tstring& tstring)

Thanks that was clearly a bug but didn't fix it. I've abandon that approach and trying another path. Thanks for your help.


thanks


dang