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I have mingw GCC to write C++ code and I want to create small desktop application for windows.
i am trying to basically just make a button in my little console application which can be pressed. There will be three buttons,
so if I press first button, hello 1 should be display screen
if I press seconds button, hello 2 should be display on screen
if I press third button, hello 3 should be display on screen
I'm having trouble figuring out how to get it to work mingw
Search for beginner's WinAPI tutorials, they'll teach you the basics.
Another possibility is that you have already written the program but couldn't get it to compile on the MinGW port of g++. Is this the case, and if so, what did you try and what errors did you encounter?
Actually I can run the program on my computer but I don't have idea how to create button ?Quote:
Originally Posted by laserlight
A button is a child Window, created with CreateWindowEx() with hWndParent argument set to the handle of your main window. You'll need to process the WM_CREATE, to create them and WM_COMMAND to do some action when they are clicked.Quote:
Originally Posted by microcontroller
@microcontroller,
You are at a position I think should provoke some thought on how to proceed.
In C, you'd do as @flp1969 suggests, which is to use the C API of Windows. It's painful, but it is the way to do that in C.
In C++, however, you have a huge range of options. You can still write to the C API of Windows, and it will still be painful. The only correct response a C++ programmer should have to the C API of any GUI is to encapsulate, but that's still painful.
That work has been done, many times, producing a number of GUI libraries which reduces the pain considerably. Many will support writing a GUI application portable between platforms (from Windows to MAC, Linux, etc).
Qt is popular, while wxWidgets is similarly robust. FLTK is used in teaching, and is very light weight. Typical searches produce copious links to downloads for each library, as well as tutorials and discussion on how to build with them.
There are some Windows specific libraries, too - MFC, ATL...but there is little advantage to building for Windows only when similar effort can build for most of them at once.