GUI programming

Hi All,

I'm pretty new to programming and C++ and have been making my way through c++ without fear.

I'd like to know the best route to go to get into GUI or windows programming after I've got a good handle on C++, obviously.

I'd prefer to stick with C++ since I'm learning it now.

Many thanks for your time.

Qt is a good one .

wxWidgets is another good one.

My last C++ Instructor considered Qt better than wxWidgets because it made more use of C++ features.

Tim S.

Originally Posted by stahta01

My last C++ Instructor considered Qt better than wxWidgets because it made more use of C++ features.

Tim S.

I do not know much about wxwidgets, but I found the use of macros in Qt somewhat confusing. Other than that it is a pleasure to learn.

me personally i prefer WxWidgets because that it is hard to learn and once i get through the crap it presents i own at it but i have to say really dude i know this sounds warped but for me i tried out QT love it but at the same time i feel like i didnt build it, and wxwidgets brings that back for me! but there are also other gui libaries out there but i dont honestly know what they are sorry dude

and WxWidgets is more code orientated

and QT is more Editor Orientated but with code as well

You can look at FLTK also, the dev team have just signed off a final release on version 1.3 which you can get on the download pages.

And regarding 'feeling like you built it' I would much prefer to be involved in the design and aesthetics of the UI via an editor rather than also having to handcode all the button positioning etc, you have enough to worry about writing the actual working code for your application.
Handcoding I use when required, like to populate a group of keypad buttons or other stuff that would be too tedious to create one by one in an editor, also hand code for unit tests on a button callback or library drawing function for example.

Hey, I've been in exactly that position a recently, and after looking around it seems that GTK+ (GTKmm for C++ - GTK+ is in C).
In my opinion Qt is a bit heavy and has a load of dependencies, GTK+ (or any of its extensions) is much easier to set up.

In my opinion Qt is a bit heavy and has a load of dependencies, GTK+ (or any of its extensions) is much easier to set up.

Huh...? Qt provides a installer file for both windows and the *nix es which takes care of both the ide and the libs.

Originally Posted by manasij7479

I do not know much about wxwidgets, but I found the use of macros in Qt somewhat confusing. Other than that it is a pleasure to learn.

wxWidgets uses Macros for things that are now supported by the C++ standard.
Note: wxWidgets 3.0 is moving the code to using less Macros that are mirroring C++ functionality.
They can do this because they are dropping support on several old versions of C++ Compiler that did not have the functionality the Macros added.

Tim S.

wxWidgets 3.0 is moving the code to using less Macros that are mirroring C++ functionality

If you are well versed in both, do you think it would be a good idea to move to wxWidgets from Qt ?

in my own experience, Windows Forms / WPF is the most requested on job posts.

in my own experience, Windows Forms / WPF is the most requested on job posts

Unfortunately.. :P
Well, I'm happily a hobbyist ..

the one attractive thing about wxWidgets, from my perspective, is that you NEVER have to pay for it under any circumstances. Qt has a free version that is only for open-source projects, and a paid version that is for commercial projects.

Qt was LGPL when i used it 2 years ago