C gui app knowledge

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sailormouth

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Feb 15, 2009, 12:15:08 PM2/15/09
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Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone has experience writing gui apps in C? I have
a need to write an app similar to a tile editor, but the only C i've
done has been command line with output to file/screen. I have tried
existing tile editors to see how well they might work with my bin, but
they don't work well.
I am looking for suggestions for books or online tutorials for gui
apps. I have only been finding stuff on what I have already done. I'm
not expecting to write it completely from the start, but in stages.
Start out with rendering a bin chunk in a window and working up to a
customizable sized scroll window with offset detect.
This is for dumps from 8bit embedded toys, and i'll be working on an
old machine running Kubuntu 7.10.
Thanks for any input and feedback.

Marshall

Paul Slocum

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Feb 15, 2009, 12:42:28 PM2/15/09
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I use MINGW and SDL to write C/C++ programs for Windows (also supports
linux/OSX). SDL is a library designed to write video games. I know
there are also some GUI extensions for it. You can build all this with
a fully open-source toolchain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingw

-paul

sailormouth

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Feb 15, 2009, 3:06:35 PM2/15/09
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Cool, thanks Paul, I will look into those.
The only thing I had started looking at was gtk because it is
installed on my linux box at work which would let me use downtime
there.

Marshall
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