GUI coding in Code::Blocks

[peter Laman]

Originally Posted by v0id

Stupidest comment I've heard in a long time. GUI libraries are not useless if you're planning to do cross-platform programming, and also, GUI libraries usually speed up things, because they've a lot of functionality, and you don't have to lookup different API calls, and in which order to call them. Don't get me wrong; it's great to know what's going on under the hood, but saying GUI libraries are useless is stupid, IMO.

No offense...

Edit: By the way, many GUI libraries do use the native API of the operating system.

In fact, they all do that, because there's no other way to do it.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by peter Laman

In fact, they all do that, because there's no other way to do it.

Well, yes and no. I said it because some libraries are built on top of other libraries, and therefore don't use the native API directly. Of course, the underlying library will use it. So, in an indirect way it will still be used, and you're right, in the end it will use the native API.

[nutario]

Now I have something to say, too:
If you don't want to use the native ApI directly, I would take qt4.
Currently I'm working with the qtdesinger and qt3.3. And I can say, I'm very impressed of the simple usage of it.