C++ GUI Help and/or tutorials needed!

[Syberius]

I have been working in PHP for 3 years now and I have noticed I did this backwards. I went from nothing to PHP and now I am trying to move up to C++. The syntax is similar and console/cmd programs are no problem to me but I want to move on to GUI programming since there is only so much you can do at a command prompt.

I am looking for help and/or tutorials on how to get started. I am still expanding my knowledge of OOP but it is now sufficent to work on this I feel. If anyone can help me here I would be very greatful!

Thx,

Syberius.

[RyuuNoSenshi]

Well first thing is what kinda GUI do you wanna create and if so which OS do you want to create it on? There are quite a few APIs out there that deal with GUIs(APIs do most of the dirty work for you so you don't have to worry about anything but the window). If you want to do a GUI that works on both windows and Linux you might wanna try using QT designer(it allows you do design the window and then it writes the code for you, which is a real time saver, but I haven't played around with it much). http://www.trolltech.com/ (The QT website). If you're interested in programing for a specific Desktop enviroment for Linux(such as KDE) you might wanna try their web pages for tutorials(http://www.kde.org for KDE stuff)

Well hope that helps. If you want I can look up some more sites on various GUI APIs.

And I'd link those webpages to make them clickable, but I haven't slept in a while so my eyes aren't focusing so well anymore. X,x

[Syberius]

LOL, No worries!

I am probably looking to start with windows only GUIs then move on to x-platform. Thanks for that, I will have a check later when I have more time and less work

Syb,

[RyuuNoSenshi]

Well for windows GUI tutorials, you might wanna try http://www.programmersheaven.com/ they have alot of good tutorials on various things. And if you want some code examples try http://www.planetsourcecode.com/ it's got alot tutorials and free code. It was alot of help to me when I was trying to learn windows based GUI API. I prefer to use stuff like QT now, because it can be compiled on a whole lot of different OS's. And QT designer takes alot of the time out of coding the GUI. Anyway hope that helps.