Thread: Going for a Graphical UI

I'm becoming pretty bored of the plain-old console. While I was looking for portable GUIs, I went over QT and wx. there's also V, but it's damn outdated.

QT is way over my head - and well, i've toyed around with the wx examples, but none worked. I've modified resources, paths, and in the end it looked like one library file was missing. Ah well.

Since I am working with devc++, i found out that a RAD devc++ in a very visual basic style exists, called wx-devc++.

Should I use that for GUI development? Forms generated with the app compile from the first try, it seems pretty easy to use, too..

thanks

I use QT at work and it is really great, but it is not free for comerrcial use and very expensive.

On the other hand gtk is free for comercial use (I think) and looks very attractive to me.
I suggest you check it out.

wxwidgets is really hard to get to work under windows but if it runs it is very pleasant to develop with it.

If you are not under pressure maybe have a look at http://www.ultimatepp.org/
its an ide and a gui toolkit and not very many programmers seems to know about it. But I've had no time to try it myself yet.

Laserlight, can't find that one. If it's no bother, let me know the url.

Oh, i understood from the initial post that the macro is used inside main. And I checked all of them to find main

Meh, this is hard. The macro says where it starts, but it doens't have curly brackets as main(). Also, I can't get it where the program is looping, to keep the window "alive" ? It's like another programming language.

But at last, the wx examples compile

Originally Posted by _izua_

Wait, this GTK is a something that will create a set of functions/libraries that will make a GUI or is a GUI? That "toolkit" word is really intriguing.

wikipedia page about gui toolkits

If you want to be windows specific, you should learn the Win32 API directly. If you want to be portable, learn a 3rd party portable library such as those described above. If it were me, I would learn the portable library.

I'm toying with WX for a few hours, but I can't get a few widgets to work. the slider and scrollbar, for example - the compiler gives me "x is not declared" for any of their function i try to use (including getValue() which is really annoying), however, I see them in the popup menu with the class' members.

Most likey a problem with your code, not wxWidgets.

Win32 API is as native as you can get so the code to even implement a simple window is extremely complex. Your best bet is probably what you are using, just keep experimenting.

Qt is great. They are also offering an open source version. This takes a bit more setting up, but its worth it!