Originally Posted by Dark_Omen

Hello,
I am new to make programs. So far I can just do logical stuff like math in a dos window. I now want to move on to making actual windows programs. Does anyone know how to make a GUI in C++ for a windows application? Any reading online or in a book that I can look up? And I was also wondering once you have your code and your GUI how to make the code become the program?
Any help would be great,
Thanks

Originally Posted by wamuti

Also try MFC(Microsoft Foundation Classes). It is an encapsulation of Windows API. To make them work just compile, build and execute the ordinary way!. As easy as that(You can even skip compile ).

Originally Posted by hax_hp

Dude my advice would be to go to C# instead..C++ is for rough programming..It would help you more if you were aming to program in other platforms like Linux for example..But if you want to program in Windows the best way to fo is C# and the good news is that C# is also supported in platforms like Linux..I believe there is a library that lets you do this. The name is Mono and there is a very easy to learn library to create your gui called gtk-sharp..You can even use XML to create a gui..But anyways if you want to give C# a try do the following..

Go to C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/[Find Version 2]
Then find a program named csc.exe (That is a CSharp compiler shipped with .NET Framework)
Create a batch file in your Desktop named CS.bat
Add the following commands to it change the Version number between the brackets

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path C:/WINDOWS/;C:/WINDOWS/System32;C:WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/[Version 2]
cls

path C:/WINDOWS/;C:/WINDOWS/System32;C:WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/[Version 2] cls

The create a source file to test this out here is the code make the name Test.cs

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using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
 
class Test {
 
                 static Form frm1;
 
                 public static void Main(String[]Args)
                 {
                                   frm1 = new Form();
                                   frm1.Text = "Test Window";
                                   frm1.Show();
                                   MessageBox.Show("This is my first C# Program and Window");
                                   Application.Run();
                 }
}

using System; using System.Windows.Forms; class Test { static Form frm1; public static void Main(String[]Args) { frm1 = new Form(); frm1.Text = "Test Window"; frm1.Show(); MessageBox.Show("This is my first C# Program and Window"); Application.Run(); } }

Yeah then you have to compile it so Open a Command Prompt window and do this

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cd Desktop
CS
csc /t:winexe /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll Test.cs
Test

cd Desktop CS csc /t:winexe /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll Test.cs Test

Wallah there you go man you see how easy you should try it..

Originally Posted by T3chn0logic

@ those who aren't already using any version of Microsoft Visual Studio:

You n00bs... Why do you continue to you use third party compilers? If your even remotely into development, you all need to get Microsoft Visual Studio. If on *nix machines, get WINE, and then get MSVS. MSVS is by far the best development workstation for any developer. And for the love of god, don't f***ing complain about it costing too much money. <snipped URL>
And if your one of those 'ethical' people who are religously banned from downloading illegal torrents, get a job, and use your second paycheck to buy MSVS.

~T3chn0logic