Let's keep Brain in recipents (for now) since we don't know if he has subscribed. On 2019-03-20 19:21 +0100, Manfred wrote: > This is not the right place to ask this kind of question. > > GCC is purely a compiler with a standard library as described in the C++ > standard. ISO/IEC 14882 doesn't have a word about GUI (even while the commitee keeps grabing new language features from other languages :) > What you are looking for is a GUI library/toolkit, some examples are Qt, > Gtk, WxWidgets etc. all of which are outside the scope of GCC. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits I think the OP may need Qt because there is a Qt Creator. > On 3/20/19 5:07 PM, Brian Sargent wrote: > > Do you have a version of C++ that is visual with forms, command buttons and > > all that, and can draw geometric shapes? I work as a geophysicist and have > > done programming in Fortran then C then C++ for several years. I have done > > some Visual Basic as well as it has controls to access drives, directories > > and and lists of files. > > > > Is there a version of C++ that has this visual nature. I am not an expert > > programmer, its just a tool I sometimes need. > > > > It seems Microsoft's Visual Studio supports this functionality in C# and I > > don't want to go there. I want to stay with C and C++ code. > > If you are targeting Windows, Microsoft's Visual Studio is a good tool > for the task. It can support GUI development for C++ too. But I think mixing up C++ and .NET (so called "managed C++" or "C++/CLI") is evil. I'd rather use C# (if I have to develop a GUI on Windoge). -- Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
