I was wondering if it is possible to make a gui program in C++ without
a toolkit, and if so are there any tutorials or books that I can read:?:
Xzantose 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to Post— dwks 149"Without a toolkit"? Sure, but you'd be writing a lot of platform-specific code. You could use regular old Windows programming. You could use the Gnome or KDE libraries.
What operating system are you using? Why don't you want to use a toolkit?
Jump to Post— Ene Uran 638The IT did not use C++ or she would still be working on it!
Jump to Post— fesago90 0The IT did not use C++ or she would still be working on it!
:lol:
Jump to Post— John A 1,896>What toolkit would you recommend with Visual Studio 2005?
.NET if speed and portability isn't an issue, and you want to create interfaces using drag-and-drop technology.
A good portable toolkit is
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dwks 149 Posting Whiz in Training
"Without a toolkit"? Sure, but you'd be writing a lot of platform-specific code. You could use regular old Windows programming. You could use the Gnome or KDE libraries.
What operating system are you using? Why don't you want to use a toolkit?
Xzantose 0 Newbie Poster
The answer to your first question is I mainly use linux.
The next is realy stupid! I watch a movie were the IT programmed pong from scratch. No toolkit , no pictures just code. This inspired me and made me curious.
Ene Uran 638 Posting Virtuoso
The IT did not use C++ or she would still be working on it!
fesago90 0 Newbie Poster
The IT did not use C++ or she would still be working on it!
:lol:
megabutt 0 Newbie Poster
What toolkit would you recommend with Visual Studio 2005?
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
>What toolkit would you recommend with Visual Studio 2005?
.NET if speed and portability isn't an issue, and you want to create interfaces using drag-and-drop technology.
A good portable toolkit is wxWidgets, which allows you to create interfaces using the platform's native interface code. It actually looks quite good.
megabutt 0 Newbie Poster
What do you think of Krypton?
Ravalon 62 Posting Whiz in Training
The answer to your first question is I mainly use linux.
The next is realy stupid! I watch a movie were the IT programmed pong from scratch. No toolkit , no pictures just code. This inspired me and made me curious.
I wish programming was like in films. I would love to be able to hack high security government systems in 60 seconds and save the world with a few keystrokes. And those 3D holographic UIs would be ace. :)
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
cant you just use windows.h and do old school win32 gui apps? mfc even?
Ene Uran 638 Posting Virtuoso
cant you just use windows.h and do old school win32 gui apps? mfc even?
Our friend is on a Linux machine.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
ah ok, never done GUI apps in linux..
I guess its GTK or QT
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Our friend is on a Linux machine.
What's confusing me is this:
What toolkit would you recommend with Visual Studio 2005?
As far as I know, Visual Studio hasn't been ported to Linux, nor will it be likely to be ported ever.
So which platform are you trying to program on, then?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
yeah i would like to point out now that nothing you make in .NET will run on linux easialy if at all
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
yeah i would like to point out now that nothing you make in .NET will run on linux easialy if at all
There is an open source project called MONO that allows .NET stuff to be run on the Linux operating system. I think the name MONO came from the effort to break the attempted MicroSoft monopoly.
blacklight 0 Newbie Poster
For linux GUI programming, I recommend Qt. It's a clean and feature-complete API... and if you ever want to get your application running on windows, there is a qt-free edition for win32 too (although it's not officially supported by trolltech, and you must distribute your source code along with the app, in order to comply with the license)
wxWidgets seems ok too, but i'm not sure it has a GUI designer as top notch as Qt. A bit higher level, there is kdevelop... that would manage a Qt project easily, no need to mess up with makefiles.
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