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[JillesCode]

Hello everyone!

I was just wondering, how would you do some basic GUI programming in C++,

There's QT, GTK+, wxWindows which I've read about but I'm not really sure which one is best (for windows)
also, I'm used to an IDE like Visual Studio 2010 for C#, isn't there something like that for C++?

That was about it!

- JillesCode

[mebob]

There are two GUI designers I know of for wxWidgets: wxFormBuilder and wxSmith (a plugin for Code::Blocks). For GTK+ I know of Glade. I don't really know much about QT though.

As for which one you should pick, I guess it all depends on how you like to program: wxWidgets is object oriented while GTK+ isn't. I think QT is object oriented as well but don't take my word for it :)

[Flying Dutchman]

Of course there's Visual C++ that comes with GUI editor; search for VC++ (Express edition). :P

For Qt you have Qt Designer, if you'll pick that I recommend downloading entire SDK.

[WingedPanther]

I prefer Qt's style over wxWidgets, but you can use any of them with designers pretty easily.

[mebob]

I just Tried Qt Creator and it is very good, I'd definitely recommend it :D

[kernelcoder]

My vote will go for Qt. Reasons are -- C++, cross-platform, easy, simple, rich --- hmm, it just suits me.

[KansaiRobot]

I ve used Qt and visual C++.
I would vote for Qt but with the warning that you have to spend some time learning how to connect widgets to code
visual C++ on the other hand just let you put code by double clicking a widget...

[shill]

Flying Dutchman, on 19 December 2011 - 12:23 PM, said:

Of course there's Visual C++ that comes with GUI editor; search for VC++ (Express edition).

For Qt you have Qt Designer, if you'll pick that I recommend downloading entire SDK.

Doesn't Visual C++ use MFC as the back end? In my opinion, nobody should be using MFC these days.