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DaveK:
Funny I would have thought a search for my question would have brought up a few results but I must one of the few people who doesn't have a clue. I need assistance with coding in Code::Blocks. That is if there is a book, online tutorials, or anything that can walk me through a few of the nuances of Code::Blocks. For instance, how to create an MDI, SDI, Graphics, dialog boxes, window views such as form view, dialog views, scroll views, etc.,
Thanks!
sethjackson:
--- Quote from: DaveK on July 19, 2006, 03:10:45 am ---Funny I would have thought a search for my question would have brought up a few results but I must one of the few people who doesn't have a clue. I need assistance with coding in Code::Blocks. That is if there is a book, online tutorials, or anything that can walk me through a few of the nuances of Code::Blocks. For instance, how to create an MDI, SDI, Graphics, dialog boxes, window views such as form view, dialog views, scroll views, etc.,
Thanks!
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Ok you need coding tutorials or..... If you want to make GUI programs that are cross-platform just use some GUI toolkit (pick your poison). However if you only code for Windows just use the Windows API. I'm really not sure what you need/are asking?????
kidmosey:
I suggest reading some windows api and programming tutorials. I make frequent trips to the MSDN library while coding straight win32. In addition, you can find some makefile tutorials to get an idea of how targets and such work.
If you just want to create simple windows and dialog interfaces, wxWidgets is relatively easy to learn, but hides much of the internals from you, so using it for anything beyond wx is not too easy.
But it really all depends on the extent of your present knowledge and what you are wanting to develop. You might consider creating a new project and/or design specs and working from there. You can develop more detailed and specific questions that way instead of the general "how do I program?". This will help you both in posting to forums and in search engines.
DaveK:
I believe the confusing question stems from the fact I misinterpreted Code::Blocks. I thought it was a Development Studio with its own framework which created cross-platform applications in C++ when actually it's just the Development Studio which supports other frameworks. I come from a .NET framework programming background and have zero experience in coding in pure Ansi C++ for Cross platform support. I have thinking Code::Blocks was like the cross-platform solution like Visual Studio is for Window applications. When I asked about a book, that was what I was asking about. My fault for misinterpreting this application. [;)]
So I'm still back to square one, however wxWidgets proves interesting. The application I plan to create is mostly a database application. With VC++ I used ADO to access a JET database. Not sure if wxWidgets will help on this. I think for me it's a question of figuring out how to code in C++ without .NET. But the nice thing about .NET was that it had many routines that performed complex tasks for you. The problem with .NET is that most of the routines worked in Windows only. I want to move away from that and create cross-platform applications. My requirements are database access, window based application containing menus, toolbars, dialog bars, wizards, etc.
sethjackson:
--- Quote from: DaveK on July 19, 2006, 12:46:20 pm ---...
My requirements are database access, window based application containing menus, toolbars, dialog bars, wizards, etc.
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wxWidgets can do all of this out of the box. However for database access you will need to get one of the addon classes. From wxCode.
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