hi..new here

[conqrr]

hi
want some advice here.
i have learnt console programming in c++
we have finished array,structures, pointers,classes,inheritance and other stuff.
now i want to start GUI programming in c++.

do i have to learn the win32 api or shall i start with qt??

are there any disadvantages in learning qt and skipping win32??

what about profession companies hiring, do they want us to learn win32 or it doesnt matter??

[maikel]

I've always had the feeling, that QT was easier to use. But in the end, it doesn't matter at all. It really depends on what you are aiming for. But don't listen too much to what I have to say, since i'm not in the economy.

Maikel

[helios]

60-70% of all GUI programming jobs require .NET, 30-20% require Java, and the last 10% comprise ~5% of all C/++ programming jobs. In other words, knowing how to do GUI in C/++ is a skill you're highly unlikely to use in a professional environment.

But remember that 94% of all quoted statistics are made up on the spot.

[conqrr]

ok,but just for now, to start GUI, learning qt wouldnt do any harm would it?

or is there an option better than qt??

will it be easy to learn java later in the future,after c++ that is?? as for now , i really like c++

[blackcoder41]

i'm also currently learning GUI programming, i have tried QT, wxWidgets and MFC (tried only not fully learned) and i notice that it produces bigger exe (except MFC) than win32.

i also ask the same question as you did in this forum, but still i couldn't decide. so what i did is, i tried it all just to have a background on how GUI programming is done on different libraries/API. besides i don't really care enough about GUI programming anyway, i care more on game programming but i may be on the wrong path. lol

EDIT: i'm not currently learning, i'm such a lazy person. i learn from time to time when i feel like learning..

[helios]

i have tried QT, wxWidgets and MFC (tried only not fully learned) and i notice that it produces bigger exe (except MFC) than win32.

Obviously, because there's extra code used for generalizing things, not to mention added reflection.