C++ GUI apps

[shut sorrel]

How can I use C+++ to make GUI programs? (I use Visual Studio Code)

[dense seal]

Don't, honestly use C# instead

[hexed shell]

If you don't already know, yoiu need to know / learn about libraries, how to use and include them correctly in your build system etc before you can start with GUI

something easy to get started would be to use visual studio instead of visual studio code

the setup process and the way to include libraries are more trivial and intuitive to start with without much configuring. '

Also there are a lot of different GUI frameworks and libraries for C++ programming like Qt, Imgui, sfml

[shut sorrel]

thanks

[hexed shell]

for example iif you are using cmake

https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/3.0/getting-started/cmake/

then here's a setup / template that would help you get started

and here's the setup for cmake in vscode

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/cmake-linux

but over all of that I would recommend using this setup as it's probably going to be easier:
https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/3.0/getting-started/visual-studio/

[red gull]

There is a UI lib that looks very promising to me, but I'm new to C++ and I'm trying to import and use it, but without success. I don't know what I should learn to use such a lib.

https://lcui.org/en/

[hexed shell]

oh yeah this is kind of a simplified version of winrt winui3 where you use c++ and xml

also when I press english on the website it's still just chinese lol

[red gull]

lol

[hexed shell]

This one seems pretty simple, just follow these steps in vscode:

[red gull]

I am going to try

[worldly cobalt]

@red gull has reached level 1. GG!

[hexed shell]

I just tried and got some errors when trying to build and run, but it was related to xmake, I haven't used it before but yeah try it looks good.

[red gull]

me to, like:

xmake
[ 10%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\src\lcui.c
[ 11%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\src\lcui_settings.c
[ 11%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\src\lcui_ui.c
[ 12%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_block_layout.c
[ 12%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui.c
[ 13%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_css.c
[ 13%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_debug.c
[ 14%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_diff.c
[ 14%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_events.c
[ 15%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_flexbox_layout.c
[ 15%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_image.c
[ 15%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_logger.c
[ 16%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_metrics.c
[ 16%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_mutation_observer.c
[ 17%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_rect.c
[ 17%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_renderer.c
[ 18%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_root.c
[ 18%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_text_style.c
[ 19%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_tree.c
[ 19%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_updater.c
[ 20%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget.c
[ 20%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_attributes.c
[ 20%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_background.c
[ 21%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_border.c
[ 21%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_box.c
[ 22%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_box_shadow.c
[ 22%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_classes.c
[ 23%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_hash.c
[ 23%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_helper.c
[ 24%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_id.c
[ 24%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_layout.c
[ 25%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_observer.c
[ 25%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_prototype.c
[ 25%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_status.c
[ 26%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui\src\ui_widget_style.c
[ 26%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\ui-xml\src\ui_xml.c
[ 27%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\timer\src\timer.c
[ 27%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\thread\src\pthread.c
[ 28%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\thread\src\windows.c
[ 28%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\worker\src\worker.c
[ 29%]: compiling.release vendor\LCUI\lib\css\src\computed.c
error: ui_xml.c
vendor\LCUI\lib\ui-xml\src\ui_xml.c(312): error C2220: o aviso a seguir é tratado como um erro
vendor\LCUI\lib\ui-xml\src\ui_xml.c(312): warning C4090: 'função': diferentes qualificadores 'const'
vendor\LCUI\lib\ui-xml\src\ui_xml.c(345): warning C4090: 'função': diferentes qualificadores 'const'

  > in vendor\LCUI\lib\ui-xml\src\ui_xml.c

[hexed shell]

yeah something like that

[worn tinsel]

well if you want to make a UI i would recommend Imgui(https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) or qt. If you want to make games or other graphics related apps you may also need an engine or make your own. If you lmk what exactly you wanna build i can let you know what options you have