Message-ID: <3A4D2E55.DDE8CFD@deakin.edu.au> From: DS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: GUI Programming References: <92j9rh$lq0$1 AT newsg2 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:37:41 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.132.6.105 X-Trace: news.deakin.edu.au 978136554 139.132.6.105 (Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:35:54 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:35:54 EST Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Stephen Balfe wrote: > Hi everyone, > I been programming dos and Linux console programs for a little while > now, and was want to get into some GUI programming, mainly under windows > 98. > I'm using djgpp 2.03 and have had a look at the RSXNTDJ 1.5 set of > programs which I downloaded at the same time. Having looked at the RSXNTDJ > help files, however, there does not really seen to be enough information at > a basic level to get started. > I have experimented with some Qt programming under Linux, which I found > very easy to pick up the basics. However Qt seems to only be commercially > available under windows, and is therefore unsuitable. > > My questions are: > What do most people use for developing GUI programs under Windows? Is > RSXNTDJ any good? > > Where can I find a good online tutorial to learn GUI programming from the > ground up to a good level? > > Are there any good books you can recommend? > > Is there anything similar to qt which I can use? > > Also what is the difference between the 32-bit extended dos applications > output by djgpp's gcc compiler, and the Win32 applications output by > RSXNTDJ's gccwin32 compiler (after-all, presumably, if you link a library > such as Qt when using gcc, then gcc will also output GUI applications [this > is only a guess, I'm not sure if it is correct or not])? I think either cygwin or mingw are better options for a win32 compiler. -- "Spam! me baby one more time!"