Thread: GUI with Standard Library

How could you write GUI programs without the help of a third party library such as OpenGL?

You would rewrite OpenGL, call it something else, and use that.

But seriously - the standard library doesn't provide for graphics, and things like that. You need to use a third-party library, or write your own code to do all the graphics - which isn't very fun using just the standard library.

edit: http://www.friedspace.com/cprogramming/cgraphics.php

Originally Posted by sean

You would rewrite OpenGL, call it something else, and use that.

But seriously - the standard library doesn't provide for graphics, and things like that. You need to use a third-party library, or write your own code to do all the graphics - which isn't very fun using just the standard library.

edit: http://www.friedspace.com/cprogramming/cgraphics.php

Thanks so much for that link, Sean! Great info and tutorial, there.