c++ Questions

abc123

Hello all,
I know that this is a forum for discussing php but I am hoping that someone would help me out with a couple of questions about c++ to get me started.

I've been looking into developing in c++ and have been doing some simple command line based programs. I am finding it to be okay to learn as it has the same things such as loops, conditional statements, pointers etc.

What I was really wanting to learn was how to create GUIs. I've been looking on the internet for tutorials but they all seem to be about things like if statments and pointers etc and are all command line based with cout and cin.

Does anyone know where I can find an online tutorial for learning how to create GUIs and if you have experience in creating them then what do you use? Just a text editor or a tool such as Visual Studio? Is there a free one I can download and use?

Thanks in advance for any insight you can give me.

planetsim

Id firstly make sure you know the STL first an d be able to create console applications before devling into GUI development. Anyway one GUI development platform is OpenGL, you may want an easier GUI framework to start off with (I have no experience with OpenGL so not sure how hard it is to pick up) but you may find wxWidgets better. If you prefer Windows development than http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ is a tutorial on the win32 API. If you still learning which it sounds like you are Id recommend sticking with a Text editor so you learn the language rather than having to learn the IDE.

abc123

Thanks for your reply. Funny you should post that link... I just found it about 20mins ago. I tried the first example and did a copy and paste but it didn't work and came up with errors.

I'll have to look into the errors and find out what is wrong. It seems to do the programming in c in the tutorial. I'll figure it out eventually.

I've still got some more learning to do with the console applications to make sure I am confident with the actual language.

Thanks again for your help.

MarkR

OpenGL is not an API that you'd actually want to use unless you plan on writing a program which uses hardware 3d graphics.

It's also not easy to understand or get working - but it's very cool if you can.

OpenGL is also not a GUI API, it contains no functions for making a GUI (Although you CAN make a GUI if you try hard enough).

You probably want a GUI API such as (yuk) MFC, FLTK, etc.

Mark