Thread: GUI by C++??

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    GUI by C++??

    Can i give Graphical User Interface to my applications using C/C++ in any way?
    I heard that it is possible by using C# only..
    If it is possible then that will be restricted to Windows only or OS independent. I mean if i run (compile) that application on UNIX environment will that work?

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    C and C++ have the capability for GUIs just as much as C# does, it is only that in C# it is considered easier to create your GUI application.

    There are cross platform GUI libraries for C++ that you can use (e.g. wxWidgets). If you create your GUI with such a library, it will work on Windows, Unix, and any other OS the library supports.

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    Hey thanks alot..
    Can u give me any link giving more details about this..
    I will be very very thankful..
    Thanks..

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    Hey i found that by googling..
    there is no way for the same using existing libraries(which are under ansi C)??

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    Standard C and C++ don't have GUI libraries.

    You can use each platform's API, for example, you can program directly to the Windows API in C or C++. This won't be cross-platform, though.

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    You can create an ugly text-based GUI, displaying various options and requiring the user to enter certain keys to go from one screen to the next... but any sort of modern GUI is platform specific. If you want multi-platform code & GUI's, use Java.

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    but any sort of modern GUI is platform specific
    I don't agree, there are many cross-platform GUI libraries out there - Qt, GTKmm (C++ binding of GTK), WxWidgets and probably many others.

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    I have personally worked on GUIs using C/C++ supporting multiple platforms.
    The examples being, as mentioned in the previous post, Gtkmm, Qt etc.
    I have worked on these two and I know they support multiple platforms!

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    Sorry, I should have said "...but any sort of modern GUI using standard libraries is platform specific", since sunil_ghai was asking if there was a way to do it without 3rd party libraries...

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    They are platform specific to a certain extent, and aren't "truly" portable. Of course their is going to be 3rd partly libraries, the who's to say you even have a screen or want one? GUIs are platform specific, it wouldn't be a simple port if you wanted to get C running on another platform...

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