c++ gui application

[hannes]

I've been programming c++ for a year now, and i want to make a gui application.
There are no standard-build-in classes,.. to make a gui application. So here is the question: what gui libraries do you recommend and why?

hannes

[EzwRko23]

Qt. Big, heavy, compiles forever, but can do probably all what you want and much more (and makes porting your applications easier). I also used wxWidgets and it was quite a good experience - seems much lighter than Qt.

[hannes]

thanks for your quick reply. Anyone else suggestions? I want to have a couple of opinions to choose what's best for me.

hannes

[FeZedra]

I liek Qt

[Remis]

You just want to have a GUI framework, use FLTK.
I recommend it because it doesn't contain all the things you don't need. You need a GUI framework so you get a GUI framework - no INI, XML Parser, browser component, ..
QT is a HUGE framework.
FLTK is easy, clean and fast. If you want more, use the other frameworks. Thats how a FLTK helloworl program would look like:
http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/basics.html#basics

http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/toc.html


Some other framworks:
QT
GTKmm (C++ wrapper for GTK+)
wxWidgets

[warrant]

user32.lib and its fellow runtime for that
gdi32.lib for the time being.
kernel32.lib istn't for that must.

[unregistered]

qt toolkit

[Albatross]

Qt is awesome, even if it is huge. wxWidgets is also good, but for me not as.

-Albatross

[hannes]

ok, thanks for your advice. I think i'll go for qt now.

many thanks,
hannes