[olug] Running before walking. Graphical C

Jonathan Warren thechunk at cox.net
Mon Nov 25 18:38:40 UTC 2002


I would suggest you use a commercial product like kylix / C++ builder.  They have ways you can write mostly portable code.  I don't think the win32 api has been implemented for linux but I could be wrong.  Java is the other portable solution but it is slow.  Good luck.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:19:53AM -0800, Eric Penne wrote:
> I need to write some GUI stuff for Windows for a project that I am
> involved with.  I have a windows machine but use Linux mostly.  Is it
> possible to write Windows GUI stuff in Linux and then just test in the
> windows world?  What do I need to start with?
> 
> This is just a learning experience mostly.  My stuff probably won't be
> incorporated into the code, but it will get us away from the Visual
> Basic stuff that is being used now.  Using and opensource compiler and
> stuff for this project is very important.  Maybe we should just
> implement this in HTML.
> 
> My next big project is a GUI interface for a CLI program in X.  
> 
> Eric
> 
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