Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all Posts in the discussion thread "Hello All" - Help programming in C Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:42:30 +0000 http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21891 Re: Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21891 Tue, 08 May 2007 09:37:30 +0000 u9 12755 i've never tried GTK myself but it should be pretty easy. I don't know about the GNOME stuff. But you should be able to run GTK applications on other desktops also, e.g. KDE, but i don't know how. I know you can run it on windows :)

No there is not much C going on here… But do stick around :)

]]> http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21829 Re: Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21829 Mon, 07 May 2007 23:10:28 +0000 Slim420 18041 Yes, thank you. GTK+2 works great. Theres also another program I found that is a gui to use gtk+2 and writes it into .c source files for you!!! It's called "Glade." As far as I know its only to develop GNOME applications, but isn't gtk the same way??? I guess it would depend on the compiler…….Anyways thanks for your help. So, theres not much C language programming done here????

]]> http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21651 Re: Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21651 Mon, 07 May 2007 02:08:03 +0000 u9 12755 If you want to make applications then here are a few links to some GUI libraries…
http://www.gtk.org/
http://www.fltk.org/

Look for tutorials on the sites.

If you just want to make games then SDL provides you with a window or full-screen canvas where you can draw your graphics on. Here are some excellent tutorials
http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php
http://sol.gfxile.net/gp/

The tutorials should show you how to include the given library and how to link it also.

]]> http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21619 Re: Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21619 Sun, 06 May 2007 20:52:30 +0000 Slim420 18041 Thank you for the response. I eventually will end up with C++ im sure. I'm a "newbie" to programming and C. I also forgot to mention that I'm using Linux (debian) build. How would i get the gui library? Once I have it, can I call on it with an #inlude statement?

]]> http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21586 Re: Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21586 Sun, 06 May 2007 17:50:59 +0000 u9 12755 You need to either use the Windows API or some GUI library. If you want to make games, then SDL is a nice candidate. See http://www.libsdl.org/

If you don't mind using c++ you can also check out this hardware accelerated game engine: http://hge.relishgames.com/
It is a windows-only but pretty nice though. These tutorials show everything you need to do to get it up and running in no time and are very easy to follow: http://hge.relishgames.com/doc/index.html

But if you open a real window output from printf and cout and other stuff will not be seen in it.

]]> http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21547 Re: Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21547 Sun, 06 May 2007 15:32:09 +0000 hartnell 10978 I don't really use C. However, my uneducated guess would be that you would need some kind of GUI library for that. Some C IDEs + compilers have one built in. I'll let Articoz know that you posted. As he uses C/C++ he can answer this question better than I can.

—hartnell

]]> http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986#post-21535 Hello All http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/forum/t-8986/hello-all#post-21535 Sun, 06 May 2007 14:43:48 +0000 Slim420 18041 Hi everyone, im a beginner in the C rpogramming language. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask a question like this but, here it goes. I was wondering if there was a way to compile my programs so that they open in they're own window instead of the terminal? Any help would be much appreciated! :)

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