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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

Well i took C++ for 2 semesters in high school and then C last semester in college. We covered the basics all the way up to linked lists but, we never got into GUI developement or anything too terribly difficult.

Picking up from there, i was wondering what yall think a good starting program with a GUI would be... just to kinda get my feet wet?

I figure i could post my progress in the hopes of you experienced people telling me what i suck at etc., and maybe it will help unexperienced people like myself better understand C/programming.

Smong · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:32 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I only got as far as the hello world sample program, but it looks good to me as its supposed to be portable.
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-gettingstarted.html

Maverick · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:11 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Classic school example:
Make a text editor like wordpad in C++. That would be enough challenge with GUI I think.

Be creative, enhance it

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Smong · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:22 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Do you recommend using a control to store the text in? Or doing it all yourself - memov'ing all the text right one when inserting a character at the front of the file? Or maybe some other way?

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:34 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I thought the classic challenge was a Tetris game?
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D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:19 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I think as a starter program you should write a client for a 2d spaceship game
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EdTheInvincible · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:40 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

no, thats the BASIC starter
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

GUI is very different from console. In console you write sequential code. You control all the execution of the program. In GUI, you start up your app, but then hand the control over the operating system. You then receive and react to events (messages). This is similar to the way bot plugins work. Anything you need to know from one event to the next must be stored somewhere. This is generically referred to as a state machine.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

make something that works entirely in CLI and has a nice GUI, too

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:07 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Make a C++ Chatnet client. I started one, but never even got close to releasing it.

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Solo Ace · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:12 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Hah, same here.