Thursday, July 9, 2009

What do professional C++ programmers use to make Gui's?

I was just wondering, do they use the standard api (i think its called that), where it takes tons of code just to make the window appear on screen or do they use something like QT?

What do professional C++ programmers use to make Gui's?
It really depends on what platform you are coding on and whether or not it is important for your program to run on multiple platforms.





Almost all GUI packages provide some kind of "designer" program to take the grunt work out of actually creating the GUI and most of the code is generated for you. This reduces your coding to implementing what is appropriate for the various GUI events. You only need to code by hand (use the APIs) if you need to do something outside the capabilities of the designer program itself.


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