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[Dev-C++] Just learning

[Brian W. <bri...@gm...>]

Hi everyone.  I'm a new subscriber and wanted to ask a general
question.  I learned basic C programming back in college about 10
years ago and have written a dozen or so simple programs.  But it was
only a 1 semester course and only covered DOS.  I never learned how to
write programs that run under windows and that use GUIs.  What are
some good references that I can use to bring my knowledge into the
modern era?

I'm not looking to do anything major, most of what I write is orbital
mechanics software working numbers and calculations.  Really the only
graphical output I would need is plotting functions and some decent
dialog boxes and lists to arrange and enter data.

Also, are there any FAQs or guides that can show how to use watch
variables and the debugging tools in Dev-cpp?  I was messing around
with them in my current code and tried setting a watch variable but it
didn't show up in the left column and I'm not sure what I did wrong.

Thanks!

-- 
Brian Weeden

Re: [Dev-C++] Just learning

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Look at wxWidgets for a nice framework for developing GUI-based
applications.

For developing/debugging your applications, I would recommend that you
either switch from Dev-C++ to Code::Blocks or downloads a free-standing
debugger. The debugger in Dev-C++ is a bit lacking :( Check out the MinGW
site for a graphical debugger.

/pwm

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Brian Weeden wrote:

> Hi everyone.  I'm a new subscriber and wanted to ask a general
> question.  I learned basic C programming back in college about 10
> years ago and have written a dozen or so simple programs.  But it was
> only a 1 semester course and only covered DOS.  I never learned how to
> write programs that run under windows and that use GUIs.  What are
> some good references that I can use to bring my knowledge into the
> modern era?
>
> I'm not looking to do anything major, most of what I write is orbital
> mechanics software working numbers and calculations.  Really the only
> graphical output I would need is plotting functions and some decent
> dialog boxes and lists to arrange and enter data.
>
> Also, are there any FAQs or guides that can show how to use watch
> variables and the debugging tools in Dev-cpp?  I was messing around
> with them in my current code and tried setting a watch variable but it
> didn't show up in the left column and I'm not sure what I did wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Brian Weeden
>
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