output style

[Darqam]

Hello,

I was wondering if there were any different ways to visualize a C++ program other than the regular "command" box. I have never completed a full course of C++ so There is a very good possibility that I am missing something simple.

I want to know this so that I ca send a program I want to write over to some friends so that they may use. However I do not want them to have to install visual studio or other ... more complex, program like that.

Cheers and thanks!

[bluezor]

As far as I know.. you can create GUI's with wxWidgets

http://www.wxwidgets.org/

[NGen]

Or you can use the library given by the OS...

Windows uses <windows.h> as a header, and if you're using C++ for Mac, don't. You won't be able to use the MacOS library as easily. You should learn Objective-C, in that case.

Windows also uses DirectX, as you probably know, but I think you can get pretty far without it. Just don't expect to use the WinAPI for any large-scale games.

[Bazzy]

You can also use Qt, GTK+ and lots of other GUI libraries.
All these are cross platform so your program can be compiled to run on any operating system.

@NGen
Why are you suggesting Objective-C ? C++ is far more used than it...