Best Place for C++ GUI?

ebrizzlez · Post by **ebrizzlez** » 01 Jun 2007, 23:05

Well.. I wanted to get into GUI with C++ and wanted to here from you guys.

I dealt with Qt and hated it and as well as a book called C++ in Action. Dont get me wrong here, Qt is a fast muti-platform API programming add-on to your libaires of C++, but all the annoying pointers and functions tend to get repeatative to debug and handle. And the C++ in Action book/online ver, suck tremendously. I tried to compile a few of there examples and didnt work.

In fact, they didnt even list a heading file to use!!! If anyone has an idea of a good place or book to start with GUI help is apperciated.

Post by **pseudo_opcode** » 02 Jun 2007, 02:12

try wxwidgets, i havent used it, but heard it from Mab

ebrizzlez · Post by **ebrizzlez** » 02 Jun 2007, 11:05

pseudo_opcode wrote:try wxwidgets, i havent used it, but heard it from Mab

Awesome. I'll check it out, any other ideas? Much apperciated.

Swan · Post by **Swan** » 22 Jun 2007, 09:59

Ive used a book called:

"C++ demystified"

by Jeff Kent.

Makes use of C++ VS 2005

Excellent book.

Code works, clear examples etc

Great book

RNA · Post by **RNA** » 26 Jun 2007, 02:30

wxwidgets for sure, I use it for my C++ GUI stuff, theres also a great IDE for it, http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/ , based off Dev-C++

ebrizzlez · Post by **ebrizzlez** » 26 Jun 2007, 07:11

RNA wrote:wxwidgets for sure, I use it for my C++ GUI stuff, theres also a great IDE for it, http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/ , based off Dev-C++

Hmm... hey thanks.

I never knew there was an IDE for wxwidgets, I thought you just had to intergrate it with youe local compiler.

Is there any tutorial or book for this?

RNA · Post by **RNA** » 04 Jul 2007, 02:59

ebrizzlez wrote:
RNA wrote:wxwidgets for sure, I use it for my C++ GUI stuff, theres also a great IDE for it, http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/ , based off Dev-C++
Hmm... hey thanks.

I never knew there was an IDE for wxwidgets, I thought you just had to intergrate it with youe local compiler.

Is there any tutorial or book for this?

Not to my knowledge, however I'm sure Wxwidgets has a wiki, try there for reference

ebrizzlez · Post by **ebrizzlez** » 04 Jul 2007, 09:07

Actually... it comes with a manual and a pdf book. ^^

Thanks for the info.

p99 · Post by **p99** » 06 Jul 2007, 17:50

It is my understanding that you can Use Glade to build gtk Gui applications and put the code to that. I plan to do that with python but i'm not sure if it works the same with C++. I imagine it would though.

GTK provides an impressive envirement for gui applications. I discovered it for python and kicked Tkinter out.