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Nowyou will do some additional configurations. Again you must click on Project -> Properties, it will open the configuration properties, and select Linker from there, and from the drop-down, l click on System. On clicking the system the subsystem option will appear, and you have to select that from the drop-down because the Subsystem tells the operating system how to run the .exe file. You will have to select Windows from the drop-down bar.

After this step, you have to select the entry point. So under configuration settings, choose Advanced and write Entry point as main and click on ok. The entry point means the starting address of .exe file.


You can paste the above code in the .cpp file. This code shows how the program will execute; MyProject is the project's name; you have to change it according to your project name. In this case, the name of the project is Project2. Similarly, MyForm is the name of the form file; you can change it as well according to the name of your form file and save it.


As you have successfully created the windows form, now you will design the calculator application and for that, you need to add some buttons and textboxes on the form. To add textbox, click on the toolbox on the right-hand sidebar and search for textbox. To add the textbox in the form, click on the textbox and release it over the form.


Similarly, you can create another textbox and adjust its size and font. You must create two textboxes because you want two numbers or digits to compute. You can either create the textbox again or copy the first one and paste it into the form.


Then, you can add the label in between both the textboxes as an operator. To add the label, you can again go to the toolbox and add the label from there, adjust it from fonts, and write the text inside it from the text option inside the properties.


Now, you need some buttons to add to this calculator like addition, multiplication, etc. To add the button, click on the toolbox and add buttons from there. Unlike textboxes, you can simply resize the button by clicking on it and adjusting it manually. But to change the text, you have to go to properties -> text and write down the text, like in this case, you must write the symbol +.


Here, you have declared the variable output which will store the result. The textBox1 is the name of the textbox and the arrow operator gives access to the members of the object. The arrow operator is pointing to Text which means you have to change the text of textBox1. Similarly, you must do it for textBox2 and add both of them.


To display the text, write the actual name of the Result label, i.e., label2. Here, you are again using the arrow operator pointing to the text because you want to change the text and print the output.


You have added the functionality for the add(+) button. Similarly, you must double click on the subtraction button and do the same for it as well but only the signs would be different. Similarly, for all the buttons the same actions must be done.


After reading this tutorial on C++ GUI, you would have understood how to create a project and configure visual studio to run C++ GUI application and the Creation of windows form application. You will also learn how to create a C++ GUI application.


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You can then unpack the SFML archive wherever you like. Copying headers and libraries to your installation of Visual Studio is not recommended, it's better to keep libraries in their own separate location, especially if you intend to use several versions of the same library, or several compilers.


The first thing to do is choose what kind of project to create. It is recommended to select "Empty Project". The dialog window offers a few other options to customize the project: select "Console application" or "Windows application" only if you know how to use pre-compiled headers.

For the purpose of this tutorial, you should create a main.cpp file and add it to the project, so that we have access to the C++ settings (otherwise Visual Studio doesn't know which language you're going to use for this project). We'll explain what to put inside later.


The next step is to link your application to the SFML libraries (.lib files) that your code will need. SFML is made of 5 modules (system, window, graphics, network and audio), and there's one library for each of them.

Libraries must be added in the project's properties, in Linker Input Additional Dependencies. Add all the SFML libraries that you need, for example "sfml-graphics.lib", "sfml-window.lib" and "sfml-system.lib".


The settings shown here will result in your application being linked to the dynamic version of SFML, the one that needs the DLL files. If you want to get rid of these DLLs and have SFML directly integrated into your executable, you must link to the static version. Static SFML libraries have the "-s" suffix: "sfml-xxx-s-d.lib" for Debug, and "sfml-xxx-s.lib" for Release.

In this case, you'll also need to define the SFML_STATIC macro in the preprocessor options of your project.


You might have noticed from the table that SFML modules can also depend on one another, e.g. sfml-graphics-s.lib depends both on sfml-window-s.lib and sfml-system-s.lib. If you static link to an SFML library, make sure to link to the dependencies of the library in question, as well as the dependencies of the dependencies and so on. If anything along the dependency chain is missing, you will get linker errors.


If you are slightly confused, don't worry, it is perfectly normal for beginners to be overwhelmed by all this information regarding static linking. If something doesn't work for you the first time around, you can simply keep trying always bearing in mind what has been said above. If you still can't get static linking to work, you can check the FAQ and the forum for threads about static linking.


If you don't know the differences between dynamic (also called shared) and static libraries, and don't know which one to use, you can search for more information on the internet. There are many good articles/blogs/posts about them.


If you chose to create a "Windows application" project, the entry point of your code has to be set to "WinMain" instead of "main". Since it's Windows specific, and your code would therefore not compile on Linux or macOS, SFML provides a way to keep a standard "main" entry point in this case: link your project to the sfml-main module ("sfml-main-d.lib" in Debug, "sfml-main.lib" in Release), the same way you linked sfml-graphics, sfml-window and sfml-system.


Now compile the project, and if you linked to the dynamic version of SFML, don't forget to copy the SFML DLLs (they are in ) to the directory where your compiled executable is. Run it, and if everything works you should see this:


If you are using the sfml-audio module (regardless whether statically or dynamically), you must also copy the DLL of the external library needed by it, which is OpenAL32.dll.

These files can be found in too.


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