Create a GUI for a C++ program

[B.Y.O.B.]

Hi,

a friend and I have written a tictactoe-program in C++, now we would like to create a GUI for it.
It should run on at least Windows and Linux, so we'll most likely use something like GTK+ or Qt.

Since the GUI of LuxRender is written in Qt I wanted to ask if it is possible to learn how to make a simple GUI in several weeks and if someone knows good tutorials about this topic.

regards
Simon

[dougal2]

IMO Qt is the way to go, and making the GUI should be a relatively simple task if you've already coded in C++. The Qt SDK even includes a graphical GUI editor to make things easier.

[B.Y.O.B.]

Thank you dougal2, I'm learning Qt now.
We'll most likely show the source code here once the GUI is finished

[B.Y.O.B.]

Hi,

the GUI is finished now and I have learned many new things while developing it. Because of that I'll redo the whole code the next time so that it's logically clear, simple and clean. Also I need to fix some issues with including icons for the windows builds.

When the project is complete I'll show you the code here and upload builds for Linux and Windows, maybe even for Mac OS X.

[rendermagic]

Hi,

the GUI is finished now and I have learned many new things while developing it. Because of that I'll redo the whole code the next time so that it's logically clear, simple and clean. Also I need to fix some issues with including icons for the windows builds.

When the project is complete I'll show you the code here and upload builds for Linux and Windows, maybe even for Mac OS X.

I was curious if you had any 'cross platform' issues/hurdles that you had to overcome with QT? Or, did it manage those concerns without much thought? The reason I'm asking is because I thought read a long time ago that QT wasn't exactly cross platform friendly. I hope I was misinformed

[B.Y.O.B.]

I was curious if you had any 'cross platform' issues/hurdles that you had to overcome with QT?

I had some issues getting the paths to the icons right on windows, but apart from that, no. Maybe a Lux developer or someone else who uses QT more often and has more experience with it can tell you more about such issues.

I'm coding on Linux and I still plan to compile a version for each windows and Linux, but the GUI code is still unoptimized.
I first wanted to do a cleanup of this part of the program and then release both code and binarys here, but until now I was too busy to look at it. What I also don't have done so far is translating the menu etc. into english, at the moment it's all german.
The program works, though.

So the project is still alive, it just sleeps

Btw. I don't think I'll compile it for Mac OS X.

regards
Simon