I'm wondering if any of you know of a good free C++ GUI?
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I'm wondering if any of you know of a good free C++ GUI?
microsoft is giving vc++ for free now
and it has a very good gui-maker for c++
What does that mean? GUI's are graphical user interfaces, and programs create them when they want to present pretty displays for the user to interact with the program. That means a GUI is going to be tailored to the specifics of the program.Quote:
'm wondering if any of you know of a good free C++ GUI?
If you are looking for a compiler with an IDE(Integerated Development Environment), then some people say the free dev C++ compiler is the best compiler period:
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
Or maybe you are looking for something like GTK
I looking for, I guess it would be called, a GUI Library that would have functions that would allow you to create a GUI for your program. Like how I'm using Allegro for graphics functions, I would use this for GUI functions.
Dosen't allegro come with some GUI functions?
Well remember that GUI just refers to a graphical interface, so you could make a complete graphical interface out of just about any graphics program that could also handle events. I've never used Allegro, so I don't know about that, but I know SDL's like that.
However, if the OP is looking for a library to help him out with working with the Windows GUI, there's the Win32 SDK, MFC, OWL, the new .NET framework, and possibly dozens of others. You could research them on both google and this forum - and probably find some very helpful recommendations.
If you're looking for something other than Windows based, than you'll need to provide a few more details. Maybe you want to design a custom one, in which you'd use a graphics library and build it from scratch, or something else - but I hope that helps.
Google for QT, wxWidgets, or GTK.
I listed many of the a.. multi-platform GUI Libraries in this thread: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...8&page=2&pp=15. Under "Addons for OpenGL". Some of them aren't addons for OpenGL, but were just mostly used with OGL that I put them there. Some don't have sliders, and some don't have buttons, so I would read up on them.
I'd go for win32 if you're starting out. That or MFC, wxWidgets, or GTK personally, but the link above has some other interesting ones.
Two popular win32 tutorials: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ and http://code.glowdot.com/tutorials/wi...ial.php?page=2 .