opening jpg in a new window

[cainen172]

my question is just as the title says. i want to know how to open a jpg in a seperate window automaticly when my code opens. i have looked everywhere but i cant figure out how to do it

[hamsterman]

http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/graphics-sprite.php

[cainen172]

i kinda was hoping to do it without sfml because i dont know how to get it to work with dev c++

[hamsterman]

sdl then?

[acorn]

I think both sdl and sfml and many many others all link to the same jpeg lib. i saw a quick thing how to use. i would just use the jpeg lib directly to avoid unnecessary files

http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Services/Doc/graphics/doc/jpeg/libjpeg.html

[hamsterman]

acorn, OP wants to display the jpeg too. (or did I fail to notice that functionality there?)
cainen, you should try to deal with setting up a library. You'll need it at some point anyway. Though you may want to get a better IDE before you do that (Code Blocks, for example).

[cainen172]

im not trying to put a pic in my program. i want it to open an existing picture from the files in my computer in a new window

[cainen172]

also i did download microsoft visual c++ 2010 express edition but i was experiencing technical difficulties.

[hamsterman]

Would calling (from your code) some other program to open the image be ok?

[cainen172]

what do u mean

[cainen172]

o i understand now but how do you do do that.

[hamsterman]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153(v=vs.85).aspx
though you could use system() too.

[cainen172]

i still dont really get it. but its ok i think i found another way

[Moschops]

At risk of going off-topic, would you consider not using Dev-C++? So many people come through here struggling with it, and there are so many better alternatives. To my mind, even a basic text editor and manual command line compilation and linking is better than Dev-C++.

[cainen172]

so i have been told..... can you request a better IDE