Re: [Dev-C++] (no subject)

[Chris M. <lor...@gm...>]

On Jan 21, 2009, at 1:20 AM, hhh hhh wrote:

>     Hello,
>
>
>         First and foremost, let me apologize for the ignorance I  
> will display when asking this questions...
>
>         I have only coded for Windows. With that in mind, let's  
> assume I want to port some application to a linux distro.
>
>         How can I make Graphical User Interface applications? Is  
> there an uniform way to do this in Linux?

No.

>         Even better, where can I get information about those sort of  
> things?

The Internet.

http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+gui+programming+c%2B%2B

I'd suggest either wxWidgets or Qt.  GTK+, while heavily used, gives  
me an absolute headache (C-based GUI programming could be assembler  
for all I care - it's almost completely unreadable IMHO).

>         These are fundamental questions that prevent me to proceed  
> into linux world( Because cli coding is kinda similar ), and it  
> really, really bugs me not knowing.

Read about Unix Theory.  The CLI is your friend!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Unix_philosophy#Raymond:_The_Art_of_Unix_Programming

The basic theory I'm hinting towards is that you build a command-line  
tool which performs your application's purpose* and then build a GUI  
which provides a nice graphical interface to that later.

* if applicable - not always possible, for instance, say you want to  
build a PDF viewer or something like that - the command line would be  
completely inappropriate

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