Re: First foray into Windows programming
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Dec 15, 2010
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Now as far as I can tell, GTK is for Linux only and the Euphoria wrapper for WxWidgets is in its infancy as is the wrapper for Iup.
I don't think I'd describe wxEuphoria's state as infancy. It doesn't wrap all of wxWidgets, but it certainly gets the most important stuff. New classes are, at this point, fairly easy to wrap. Its biggest hurdle to further development right now is the time I spend working on Euphoria itself. Also, for windows, we can't build anything past 2.8.7 using Watcom. But it is very functional.
Question: As I'm starting from scratch, I have nothing invested in any particular choice, so which one should I go for? I can wait a while for the WxWidgets or Iup wrappers to mature.
Also I'm thinking in the future that I might want to do simple 2-D graphics (think graphs or pie charts). Do all of the above options allow for this and if so, are some simpler/easier to implement simple graphics than others?
Lastly, can anyone point me to a good web-tutorial for complete Windows-programming novices that shows you how to get started writing windows programs?
I don't see why wxEuphoria couldn't do what you're talking about. euphoric has some wxEuphoria tutorial stuff here:
http://www.usingeuphoria.com/?page=wxeuphoria
It also comes with a lot of demos (many of which were converted from original Win32Lib demos).
Matt
