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[flamethrower205]

Hey, I took an ap comp sci c++ course at school and after working this summer learned quite a bit more and want to add some gui's to the work I do. What are some good places to start (not books, more of tutorials or reading header files and cpp files). I don't need to be programming advanced 3d using pixel shaders and all that jism, just some basic 2d stuff to make good looking guis (and I hate VB btw). Thanks.

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[imgod2u]

GUI's are platform dependent. In C++, most GUI's are done by using the Win32 API. That is, assuming you're running Windows. In *nix, I believe you need to use whatever programming interface X gives you. There's no "standard" way of doing it.

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[Flinx]

Try Java with "swing". It is pretty platform independant and quite interesting and popular.

The loving are the daring!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Flinx on 08/03/03 06:41 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[AMD_Man]

Yup, I can't think of a way to make a GUI without using the WinAPI. In fact, simply to display a form, the CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx WinAPI function is called. If you don't like the look of the Windows form window, then you can simply paint over it with GDI functions. Hmm, is it even possible to make a functional window in Windows without calling CreateWindow? I've never done it before. Then again, I usually use the "visual" aspect of modern programming languages because writing a GUI from code takes forever. I've always believed visual interfaces should be done with the help of the programming language unless you're looking for something fancy. Most code would be written in C++ .NET or Delphi or VB.NET or whatever other programming language, and all the time critical programming should be written in assembly (meaning, you don't write time critical subroutines and functions in VB ).

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[flamethrower205]

This'll be in windows, so I'll take a look at that.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

 

[c0d1f1ed]

Since you want to make a GUI, and not a GUI maker, I think it's best to stick with tools that already exist. For Windows, Win32 will be fine for simple interfaces (and you should learn it to understand some concepts). For more complicated ones, Borland C++ Builder and Delphi are excellent.

 

[bit_user]

No idea why THG listed this under "Topics being discussed on the forums" or why it was posted in CPU & Components, but they did and it was so here's my contribution.

Three popular cross-platform GUI toolkits for C/C++ are Qt, Gnome / GTK+, and wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows). There's also one built on OpenGL called GLUT / GLUI.

 

[Mousemonkey]