On 8/19/06, Noctaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Depends on what you want to develop! If you are doing mainly > > command-line only text processing tools, you pretty much can do > > everything with the standard run-time libraries. If you want to get > > into networking, more advanced system programming or graphics & GUI > > development, you are going to have to explore libraries outside the > > realm of the standard. > > Network-aware and GUI apps are without a doubt going to be part of the > bigger picture. For the former, since most of what I'll do will be Windows > based I anticipate using the Windows' libraries. For the latter, I was > hoping to use the features of the IDE to develop the GUIs.
Yep, there you go... although even for GUI development, you might want to look into a toolkit rather than programming against the raw Windows API (which is all C). First of all, it's easier (you want to focus on your application's logic rather than struggling with the API), second of all, most toolkits like wxWidgets, FLTK, etc., are cross-platform and it definitely does not hurt to develop for multiple platforms -- if you can do Windows and Unix/Linux, imagine how much better your resume will look!. But this all further down the road... learn the basics first. And ask questions here. And don't forget to show your code! -- Brett McCoy: Programmer by Day, Guitarist by Night http://www.alhazred.com http://www.cassandrasyndrome.com http://www.revelmoon.com To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
