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dburford11

Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:50 pm


I need help

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I am using the [url=http://www.alstevens.com/quincy.html]Quincy IDE.  And I want to begin building programs in C/C++.  I know the basics.  But how do you build a file menu?


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wtd

Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:04 pm



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For that you're going to have to use the Win32 API, or something like MFC.  These are not for the timid.  

If you really want to build Windows GUIs, I strongly advise using C# and the .Net libraries.

Before investing time in that, though, consider a cross platform toolkit.


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dburford11

Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:30 am



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For that you're going to have to use the Win32 API, or something like MFC.  These are not for the timid.  

If you really want to build Windows GUIs, I strongly advise using C# and the .Net libraries.

Before investing time in that, though, consider a cross platform toolkit.
Ok I will try that.


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md

Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:08 pm



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If you want to stick with C/C++ and still be cross platform I'd recomend SDL (it can also be used with OpenGL); or wx Windows (not sure if that's still what it's called). Both are cross platform to at least windows and linux (X11), and probably MacOS too (X11 and maybe coco or carbon).