Good GUI Porgrams?

[TheUnholy]

I am looking for a good program to make a GUI program, but I do not know which ones are any good. I have tried Visual C++ and Qt, but I could not figure out how to use them.

Thanks,
Shawn

[AceDawg45]

Well, I hate to break it to you, but Qt is as easy as it gets. That is definitely the fastest way to build a GUI. You create a project, and it already has a gui for you. And Visual C++ has the GUI editors now too, which work just like Qt except with a Windows API. Unfortunately, I find Microsoft's tutorials utterly useless, but the Qt ones are pretty good.
I am not one for watching YouTube videos for programming, but this guy is a really good Qt teacher and has over something like 120 Qt videos. I don't know if he's still active though. Last time I checked was a couple months ago - but he was still posting new vids.

Here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2D1942A4688E9D63

[tmason]

I second QT; not only is it one of the easiest cross-platform libraries for basic GUI/Net programming it is incredibly fast.

Get a handle for basic C++ first, however. From there start from their basic examples.

[giblit]

You may want to check out

http://qt-project.org/doc/
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/classes.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/gettingstarted.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtexamplesandtutorials.html

[poteto]

SDL(2) is a well respected API for making gui programs, although it is not a program that creates your gui for you, you have to write it :/

But the best reason to use it is to read lazyfoo's blessed game dev tutorials.

[rjvc]

If you want to distribute your program in the market, you may want to look at lincensing too. Wxwidget can also give you a hand at making nice GUI. Not that you cant, but i discourage building off the gui part of a program in c++, it takes longer development time, taking in mind cross platforming.

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Note that I am taking only 2d into account here.

[TheUnholy]

AceDawg45 wrote:

Well, I hate to break it to you, but Qt is as easy as it gets. That is definitely the fastest way to build a GUI. You create a project, and it already has a gui for you. And Visual C++ has the GUI editors now too, which work just like Qt except with a Windows API. Unfortunately, I find Microsoft's tutorials utterly useless, but the Qt ones are pretty good.
I am not one for watching YouTube videos for programming, but this guy is a really good Qt teacher and has over something like 120 Qt videos. I don't know if he's still active though. Last time I checked was a couple months ago - but he was still posting new vids.

Here - [url]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2D1942A4688E9D63[/url]

I have seen those tutorials before, and I have them downloaded on my laptop, but they are for an older version of Qt and I cannot find what I need to use it. I am at school right now, so I cannot say what it is that I cannot find, but I will post it when I get on my laptop at home.

[AceDawg45]

The Unholy wrote

I have seen those tutorials before, and I have them downloaded on my laptop, but they are for an older version of Qt and I cannot find what I need to use it.

Are they that old? I think you could get by with the first 40 or so tutorials, although I distinctly remember his QNetwork tutorials being out of date - the headers he used aren't in Qt 5.3.

If they are really that out of date - you can always browse Qt's website. They are always updating the tutorials on it. Someone posted links above.

I've heard good things about WxWidget. I've never seen it, but I don't think it requires a license. I don't think Qt does for just regular Qt - but I know they have some sort of premium thing that allows mobile support and what not.

[tmason]

I have seen those tutorials before, and I have them downloaded on my laptop, but they are for an older version of Qt and I cannot find what I need to use it. I am at school right now, so I cannot say what it is that I cannot find, but I will post it when I get on my laptop at home.

Tons of tutorials for the latest stable version here: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtexamplesandtutorials.html

As for WxWidget, I think it's cool but Qt just has way more support/examples/functionality from what I see. Plus they are backed by solid entities that won't be going anywhere for at least five (5) years.

There is a good reason why there are so many programs use it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_that_uses_Qt