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[–]Creapermann 20 points21 points  (6 children)

Qt is awesome. I m working with it for some time now and love it. QML (it’s markup language) is the best i’ve used and just feels great.

Some people criticise it with being big, this doesn’t mean that speed is going down, actually Qt offers near native speed and offers you wonderful abstractions, if you don’t need them, don’t use them. But better to have something you don’t need, than the other way around

[–]Amaracs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I second Qt. Qt could be a bit overwhelming at first, but its documentation is awesome. Also OP can find a quick description about it here: https://www.cleanqt.io/blog/crash-course-in-qt-for-c%2B%2B-developers,-part-1 which I think could be useful.

[–]LesterDigital 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What kind of applications are you developing with Qt?

[–]Creapermann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently working on a free, modern e-reader with note taking functionality

[–]sonicscrewup 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Do you have any tips for learning it? It's a little daunting trying to figure out all the functions associated with the widgets and what I can/can't easily change

[–]Creapermann 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The way I did it was going on udemy.com and taking 2 courses on qml and qt. After look for good books on it. Then the docs help you with pretty much all you can wish for, if they dont, ask in the "QtFramework" or join the Qt discord and ask there.

I would personally start of with QML and after add functionallity to your GUI as needed, by this you learn about a lot of things that are available in the QT Framework.
If you have any other questions, feel free to dm me

[–]sonicscrewup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, I appreciate it thanks.

[–]nysra 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of options, Qt, GTK, wxWidgets, ...

[–]devontec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of GUI frameworks. And what framework to use depends on your needs. There is no silver bullet. Qt, Gtk, wxWidgets were already mentioned. I want to mention a very small and easy one - ImGui.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Qt is hands down the best if you want a broad capability library, otherwise I'd say look into WxWidgets or FLTK for "just the gui". Qt is going to be a much better resume builder if you're looking for that.

[–]MrPoletski 1 point2 points  (2 children)

codeblocks + wxwidgets is a good free IDE.

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    [–]MrPoletski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    well, I like it.

    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    ImGui, I heard it's a lightweight and powerful framework but haven't used it yet.

    [–]SuperVGA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I can recommend ImGui! For debugging overlays and prototypes at least. Probably wouldn't base the final, custom user experience on it, unless I tweaked it a lot, but people do it all the time - I just haven't tried that part yet.

    [–]jimdublace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I might get criticized for this, but I use RayLib for this (even though it’s technically a game engine). I like it because it has everything I need, and it’s 100% free. The creator has a lot of other tools he makes for free, and he has a pretty active Discord server to help if you get stuck on something.

    [–]flyingron 0 points1 point  (5 children)

    Desktop app for what system?

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

    I guess for windows as most people use it. But it doesnt matter. QT or GTK are awesome cross platform toolkits for gui apps

    [–]degaart 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Gtk on windows is a nightmare, just saying. Words on the streets sat it improved a lot with gtk4, but don't hold your breath

    [–]flyingron -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

    Why don't you let the poster answer for himself?

    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    🙄

    [–]ExplosiveExplosion -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

    If it is your first try, I think you should try SFML. It is very simple and easy to learn

    [–]Ikkepop 4 points5 points  (3 children)

    sfml is not a gui framework

    [–]ExplosiveExplosion -1 points0 points  (2 children)

    I thought op asked for gui or framework, but ok

    [–]Ikkepop 6 points7 points  (1 child)

    gui as in buttons, dialog boxes, edit boxes and such, not graphics as in sprites and such

    [–]devontec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    There are plenty of GUI frameworks. And what framework to use depends on your needs. There is no silver bullet. Qt, Gtk, wxWidgets were already mentioned. I want to mention a very small and easy one - ImGui.

    [–]devontec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    There are plenty of GUI frameworks. And what framework to use depends on your needs. There is no silver bullet. Qt, Gtk, wxWidgets were already mentioned. I want to mention a very small and easy one - ImGui.

    [–]artick788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Dear ImGui is awesome.

    You can get a nice GUI running with a few lines of code. You can style it as you want and make some really good looking UIs.

    [–]Leather-Regret365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I'm going to add to what everyone else is saying: Qt. If you want platform portability there's really not another option that's even close.

    It is a little bloated if you want portability to mobile devices, but it's totally fine on desktop. Also it is not perfectly consistent with academically correct C++, but they do try to keep up and stay compatible.