Re: [Dev-C++] Offtopic: Advice on GUI to learn

[Michael C U. <mu...@cb...>]

Hi,

I would start with the wxWindows toolkit. It's cross platform, and easier
to learn than either the Win API or GTK. GTK also is somewhat buggy on
Win32 yet, and its widgets look rather out of place since it draws its own
widgets instead of using the native Win32 ones.

As far as the Win API, it's good to have some familarity with it, but most
people don't program with it directly anymore except for when the toolkit
can't do what they need. The main problem is that it is just too time
consuming. For example, it can literally take 100 lines of code using the
Win API to do what you can do in 10 lines of code with a toolkit like
wxWindows. Using the Win32 API directly is also more error prone.

wxWindows is probably your best bet. Easier to learn than GTK. Better
Windows support, and more cross-platform.

Mike

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, P.T. Waugh MA wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As a new programmer targeting the Windows environment, am I better off
> learning the WINAPI, wxWindows, or GTK?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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