A newbie question for C: how to link my engine code with graphic resources?

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I apologize to ask a simple question by not being pro-CS.
I'm a dedicated autodidactic programming learner, and I'm trying to build some GUI application but I'm still confused about the basic process to link engines ( core code ) with graphics resources which are the front end.

Can you indicate me some tutorial, book...that shows this?

Final note: I'm using CodeBlocks trying to do something for any platform. i understand that Visual Studio IDE might have a lot of tools but it'd bound the app to windows only.

Thanks in advance

What I have tried:

Several websites, Tutorial videos

Posted 21-Jun-18 6:25am

Member 13034100

Updated 21-Jun-18 23:59pm

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If you want to create an application for any platform then your best bet would be Java: The Java™ Tutorials[^]. If you just want it for Windows then Visual Studio is the best IDE, and you can learn Windows programming from EFNet #Winprog[^] and Win32 Programming - FunctionX[^].

Posted 21-Jun-18 7:26am

Richard MacCutchan

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Member 13034100 21-Jun-18 13:34pm

Thanks Richard for your suggestions but it's not quite what I'm looking for. I can't stand java or any other OOP language. And I wouldn't like to develop my App for windows only. What I look for is a simple tutorial showing how to "integrate" or link my core engine with graphics code for being shown in the display.

I understand that you must define your graphics library first: Windows.h, Graphics.h, Gtk...etc then you code and link, but How?

Richard MacCutchan 22-Jun-18 2:40am

Go and look at the second and third links I posted above. They show you how to write a Windows program in C.

Solution 3

Thanks to all for all your great suggestions but I think that finally I came across with I was looking for: SLD2, a powerful library that allows you to manage not only the all graphic features but also, mouse, keyboard, sounds...etc. Now I'going to learn it from tutorials, books...etc.

Cheers!

Posted 11-Jul-18 19:44pm

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Updated 11-Jul-18 19:45pm

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-22T00:00:00

Solution 2

At first you have to select a GUI framework: List of platform-independent GUI libraries - Wikipedia[^].

All of those provide documention with tutorials and example code. So you might try out some of them before doing the final decision.

Because you are using CodeBlocks, you should have at least a look at wxWidgets: WxWindowsQuickRef - CodeBlocks[^].

Qt has it's own QtCreator IDE available for multiple platforms. While you can also build Qt applications with CodeBlocks, the QtCreator includes design tools which makes designing the GUI and connecting to code (e.g. events like button clicks) much simpler.

Posted 22-Jun-18 0:00am

Jochen Arndt

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Member 13034100 22-Jun-18 17:49pm

Thanks for your suggestions but I understand that QT and WxWidgets are for C++

Jochen Arndt 22-Jun-18 18:08pm

Sorry, I missed that.

But then you have very few options: GTK+, Tk, IUP, and Elementary
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits

C is a good language for low level tasks but not really useful for complex GUI and graphics.

If you have at least basic knowledge of C++, I recommend to use that. You can still write C and use C++ features only for accessing the GUI library. However, Qt would be then no choice because using it requires good C++ knowledge.

Member 13034100 22-Jun-18 18:10pm

Thanks for the update and suggestions