GUI Programming In C++?

[alex.saidani]

So, I've Learned A Reasonable Amount Of C++, but I'm now struggling to understand how to write GUI programs, i can write command line programs but i cannot find any where that tells me how to make GUI ones. Does Anyone Know Anything About It Or How I Can Write GUI Applications?

Im Using XCode On Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4.

If Any One Can Help It Would Be Much Appreciated .

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Thanks In Advance!

[Lindley]

Well, I believe Apple's GUI toolkit is called Cocoa, so you might want to read up on that.

There are also a number of cross-platform toolkits you may wish to look into: GTK+, WxWidgets, FLTK, etc. Of these GTK+ is the only one I have direct experience with.

GUI programming is "event-based", meaning that your main function does some initial setup and then calls an event loop function from the toolkit which takes over all execution of the program; and all further processing on your end is done via callback functions when events (such as a screen redraw or a mouse move) occur.

[Hermit]

Well, I believe Apple's GUI toolkit is called Cocoa, so you might want to read up on that.

Cocoa is an Objective-C framework (could they have picked an uglier language?), although it is possible to incorporate C++ code into a Cocoa application (using "Objective-C++" as its called). Carbon is Apple's GUI framework for C/C++, but it seems to be less supported these days, if the decision not to give it 64-bit support is any indication.

At any rate, a cross-platform library such a wxWidgets is probably the way to go.

To the OP: For future reference, the only thing posting your e-mail address is going to accomplish is to direct boatloads of spam to your inbox. This is a forum and people can answer you directly without resorting to e-mail.

[Zaccheus]

At any rate, a cross-platform library such a wxWidgets is probably the way to go.

Yes, I agree.

[Peter_APIIT]

Hello Hermit, do you have any good reference beside the official documentation for WxWidgets ?

Thanks.

[mlgoff]

wxWidgets lists a couple of books on their website:

http://www.wxwidgets.org/

I'm partial to "Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets".

[Peter_APIIT]

Thanks.