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I hope this hasn't been asked already, I looked for a little on google and the beginning of this thread but didn't find anything. I was wondering how to turn a C++ file into an actual application. Everything I do now just compiles into an a.out and i can run that through the command line but I was hoping I could actually make something that I could double click and open a little window. It wouldn't even have to look fancy, just a blank white window would be awesome. PS. I'm using a Mac with Xcode and TextMate but I also have a windows machine at the ready. So suggestions for either would be awesome.
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drat, I was hoping there would be something a little easier than learning an API but oh well. I was going to use it cross platform because my main computer is a Mac and all of my friends run windows. I wanted to make an 'application' so that I could make a little program just messing around and send it to them to use/make jokes about/help me improve my programming, stuff like that. Well, I'll just start checking out some of these sites. Thanks.
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Mar 24, 2008 23:25
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Avenging Dentist posted:As long as you're using a cross-platform API, the amount of rewriting you need to do should be minimal. wxWidgets, for instance, uses native controls and supports a wide variety of operating systems. The first one I looked at was wxWidgets is the first one that I looked at and downloaded. It looks pretty good, I'm just not sure exactly what to do with it. I unziped the file and just kinda looked at the 'install' docs. I'll have to browse their website (and google) later and try to figure exactly what to do. I have heard a lot about how Java is a lot like C++ and I always considered learning it. But I don't really feel like tackling another language right now. I found a free online course on Ruby and I'm just kinda palin' around with that seeing if I want to try and get good at it.
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Mar 25, 2008 03:42
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Avenging Dentist posted:They have a lot of syntactical similarities, and to a total beginner, they're pretty similar, but when you start getting into more advanced things, they can be very different, especially in terms of design philosophy. Well...I've taken four classes on C++ already. That was about a year ago, and since then I have just been goofing off with it in my spare time. I wouldn't necessarily say that I have moved onto 'more advanced things' but I'd say that I am no longer a beginner.
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Mar 25, 2008 03:58
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coods posted:I'm going to also suggest using Qt with C++. I've been compiling Qt all day 
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Mar 25, 2008 20:05
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BraggPxnk posted:I've been compiling Qt all day Ok, now I'm starting to get worried. I started compiling Qt at around 10 this morning and its still running at 7:30pm. Is this normal?
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Mar 26, 2008 00:27
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ColdPie posted:Is it actually doing anything? Check the command-line output, doing one action shouldn't take more than a minute so make sure lines are scrolling. According to a quick google, 2 hours on a Pentium 2 is considered "slower than normal," and others are reporting ~10 minute compile times. It is actually been doing something. I've been checking the output a lot and it keeps on doing its think. I did the './configure' and the 'make'. It's doing the makefiles now. I'm using a 1Ghz G4 Mac running leopard.
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