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I have been learning C++ for a while now, and so far I love it. But I have been stuck at the console application level. I have built C# programs for a few years so I love having a GUI and not do everything via console.
Console programs when compiled will work on both windows and linux, which is great. When I was searching GUI C++ tutorials I could only find tutorials for windows specific GUI applications.
So my question is this, can you program a GUI in C++ that when compiled with run on both windows and linux? If this is not possible, can someone point me to a great place to learn windows and linux GUI?
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All operating systems are written in C. So, any application, console/GUI you write in C is the standard way of writing for the operating system.
Some Linux distributions feature a GUI, much like Windows, allowing for ease of use for the average computer user. Linux GUI distributions are more user-friendly and do not contain all the extra "bloatware" that Windows is known to include. Examples of easier to use distributions include Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
The desktop environment is the graphical interface on a Linux system. The default desktop environment in RedHat is provided by GNOME(GNU Network Object Modeling Environment, A GUI-based user interface for Linux and other Unix environments).
I suggest you to use Qt by Nokia:
http://qt.nokia.com/products/
It is free, very powerful, very easy to use, and well designed. And there is also a Visual Studio Add-in available:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/QtVSAddin
but you can use their own cross-platform IDE called Qt Creator as well.
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You can use wxWidget library.
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Yes, you need to use a cross platform GUI toolkit like WxWidgets
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