window making

[hwuy]

i am starting to get into actully making applications where you use windows instead of jt a terminal or cmd. I know all about the windows.h header but i hate it. first of all it can only be run on windows cuputers as far as i know.second it is so much code. and third of all it has a million commands that are case sensitive and that is very annoying. ive seen allegro window and it is simple not windows and not case sensitive if i remember right but its doesnt have very high color depth (tell me if im wrong). so if any of you know a good libary that will work on linux does not follow those three annoying topics that would be awesome. thank you!

[hanst99]

Everything in C++ is case sensitive. Allegro has as much color depth as you tell it to. GUI frameworks tend to be a bit verbose in general because they have to supply a lot of functionaly - but yeah, the WinAPI definitely takes the cake.

I'd suggest Qt.

[hwuy]

cool but what is qt

[hanst99]

Google.

[hwuy]

cool thanks:) but this is still open to anyone who knows something else to use

[Gator F]

wxWidgets is good, it even has a GUI builder. Also, the Win32 API has a lot of code because you can customize every part of it, your not limited to what you can do like other APIs, just saying.

[binarybob350]

For windows check out WTL (Windows Template Library) it's an template version of MFC and it's open source.