First C++ GUI send as much hate as you like

[plucky flicker]

There's a lot of inconsistency in your code style here, e.g.

void MainWindow::on_winButton_clicked()
{
// vs 
double loadWins(double wins) {

Stule is all preference, but be consistent

Use a unique_ptr instead of raw new/delete

This will simplify your mainwindow class

    return (losses);

    MyReadFile.close();
```the close here is dead

You also don't need to manually close c++ streams here, they clean themselves up on destruction

Just some comments/advice, good work 🙂

[wide granite]

Ohhh yeah, the function()
{

}
Those ones were auto generated but I always use function() {
}
haha

[wide granite]

Got no clue what that is uhhh

[snow turret]

it's basically a pointer that gets deleted automatically once it goes out of scope, so you don't need to delete it manually nor use new, it also can't be copied, meaning you can't have 2 unique pointers pointing to the same memory

[wide granite]

Sounds pretty high level

I can't even figure out how to compile my code so I can run it outside the Qt environment

So I have to run Qt to launch it

[snow turret]

are you using any sort of build system

[wide granite]

I'm not sure what that is 😅

I guess not?

Literally cannot figure out how to run the program outside of Qt

[snow turret]

it's a tool that allows you to compile your projects more easily, especially when working with multiple files or external libraries

https://cmake.org/

[wide granite]

Oh I think my project is using Qmake

[snow turret]

ohh

you should be able to run the project by running make in the terminal in the location where the makefile is

you need to install it first I'm pretty sure

[wide granite]

uhhhhh

cmd?

[snow turret]

yeah

[wide granite]

I just cd to the directory and type make?

[snow turret]

yes the directory where the makefile is

[snow turret]

should be in build

[wide granite]

Ohh here

[snow turret]

yeah

[wide granite]

Why can't I access the D drive 😭 lmao

[snow turret]

uh

[wide granite]

It's like I can't go further back than C:/

[snow turret]

maybe try running cmd in administrator

[wide granite]

But I also can't cd to D:\

I'm so confused

[snow turret]

try just writing D:

[snow turret]

you need to install it with mingw package manager

[wide granite]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

I'll probably just launch it through qt ahah

[lament cargo]

For me a CMakeLists.txt like this worked:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.24)
project(YourProjectName)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)

#Path to Qt lib (Maybe you have to change all Qt5 with Qt6) 
set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "C:/Qt/5.15.2/mingw81_64")

set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)

find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS
        Core Widgets Gui
        REQUIRED)

#Your files
add_executable(YourProjectName main.cpp)

target_link_libraries(paint
        Qt::Core
        Qt::Widgets
        Qt::Gui
)