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    Gui

    Do the tutorials here even teach gui?????? in most tutorials i see no explanation of GUI
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    because gui is not a feature of C/C++. It is OS specific.
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    So how would you incorporate gui with c++????????????
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    either by including machine specific assembly code for graphics output or by using a given API. Win32 API for instance.
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    Do you do gui??????????????????????????????????
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    Get Chartles Petzold's book "Programming Windows". (If you're using MS Windows.)

    But, learn C++ first! The "Hello World" program for windows is two or three pages long!!! And, most of the program won't be recognizable if you don't know anything about the Windows API (Application Program Interface). Most of the stuff in Petzold's "Hello Windows" program is Windows-specific structures and calls to functions defined in windows.h

    Because of the programming overhead, Windows programming is MUCH harder to learn than text-based programming. I mean that after a few chapters of "C++ in 21 days", you are really starting to learn something. After a few chapters of "Programming Windows" you are scratching your head and re-reading... and reading...

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    Originally posted by DougDbug
    The "Hello World" program for windows is two or three pages long!!!
    Is that so?
    Code:
    #include <windows.h>
    
    int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE CurInst, HINSTANCE PrevInst, LPSTR Args, int Show)
    {
       MessageBox(NULL, "Hello world", "My first program", MB_OK);
    }
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    Originally posted by laughman
    Do you do gui??????????????????????????????????
    LOL! you're a character. yeah, I gui I guess. Win32 API professional!
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    Yeah Megos, Petzold's first example is quite long. I don't have the book with me, and I don't remember the details but it's not just a message box, I think it has scroll bars and can be re-sized etc.

    I WISH he would have started out with a two line program, 'cause it was really overwhelming!

    But the Petzold book is thorough, and he assumes the reader knows nothing about windows-specific programming.

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