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How do I make a GUI in C++
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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
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
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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
To implement your code you need to respond to a user's action, i.e clicks a button then do i = 1+1;
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the definitive book to pick up would be charles petzolds "programming windows"
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It's easy once you get to know the windows message handling
[I will assume you checked out http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ it's good]
Hey read everything and if you need more come back here.[I can help you eith the message handling].
You cant compile GUI like dos, you will have to change some options in your compiler or you will get an error on make like:
WinMain() not referneced ..... bla...bla or someting like that
[I will assume you checked out http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ it's good]
Hey read everything and if you need more come back here.[I can help you eith the message handling].
You cant compile GUI like dos, you will have to change some options in your compiler or you will get an error on make like:
WinMain() not referneced ..... bla...bla or someting like that
Yeah I read most of the tutorial and havent got a cahnce to finish it yet. I heard that using a library would be an easier way of making a GUI so I found one called fox-toolkit. The only problem is that I dont know how to get it to work or install.
Right now I am using Bloodshed Dev-C++
Right now I am using Bloodshed Dev-C++
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Dump the fox-whatever.There are alot of such stuff which have no future. Get rid of Bloodshed also.I have used it and some standards are not supported.Borland Command line complier (they give that for free) is much
better.
Window's native GUI implement (API) is also good to know it's not so tough.
better.
Window's native GUI implement (API) is also good to know it's not so tough.
That wasn't very helpful. And the new version of Dev-C++ is pretty good.
I still need to know how to install a new library if any one could help. I know that the library is intergrated into the API to make it easier.
I still need to know how to install a new library if any one could help. I know that the library is intergrated into the API to make it easier.
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If the library is integrated into the API, then you shouldn't have to install it.
...What GUI library are you trying to install, anyways? There are bunches of them: Gtk, Qt, and Motif are examples of GUI libraries-- what's the name of the one you're trying to install?
...What GUI library are you trying to install, anyways? There are bunches of them: Gtk, Qt, and Motif are examples of GUI libraries-- what's the name of the one you're trying to install?
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
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Originally Posted by FireNet
Dump the fox-whatever.There are alot of such stuff which have no future. Get rid of Bloodshed also.I have used it and some standards are not supported.Borland Command line complier (they give that for free) is much
better.
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Its called fox-toolkit. I got it from their website at www.fox-toolkit.org. I tried to get Gtk but it wouldn't let me download it from the site. If you know where i can get it that would be great. Thanks.
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