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[Semsem]

How do I make a window for the program (so that it doesn't run in command prompt)?

Anything would be great, can't seem to find much of anything usefull by searching Google right now.

[truefusion]

I would suggest taking the time to learn how to implement the Qt GUI library. You can download the Qt SDK and work from there. Note, there is no such thing as getting a program out of command prompt. GUI programs can be started in command prompt and print to standard output just like CLI programs.

[Nelson Blogs]

Command prompt programs are called console programs. Usually, teachers and books have students learn by creating these console programs before creating what is called Win32 programming. Console programs can be considered building blocks that help you learn. Demonstrating code in Windows programming will result in hundreds of lines of code making it hard to follow. Console programs are easy for beginners. If you really want to create develop programs that do not run in the command prompt, you have to:

1) Keep learning C++ until you are able to start developing Win32 programs
2) Switch to Visual BASIC

If you want to learn how to make games with a programming language. You can learn Python and then download the Panda3D game engine. Python is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. Toontown and Pirates of the Caribbean Online by Disney are both programmed in Python and Panda3D.

[dab]

I would NOT recommend switching to Visual Basic from C++. I agree completely with truefusion. Look at Qt. It is cross platform, and has lots of documentation.

The reason to not go to Visual Basic is that Basic is a completely different beast. Doesn't have curly braces, semicolons, and what not. If ANYTHING, switch to Visual C# or Visual C++. However, my personal preferences would be Qt (I despise the .net framework).

[Quatrux]

With hardware which we have Today, it seems that it got very popular to use C# .NET environment, there it's quite easy to create a GUI application.

I used to try and learn C++ with QT tools, but just didn't have the time to do it, now whenever I need to create a program which would do something at work or at home, I usually use C# as it's fast and I don't really need to do it professionally in most cases.. Also a lot of people seems to use Visual C++ which is also an easy way to create a GUI application.

For creating serious applications.. It depends on the speed, there are quite a lot of .NET applications which a lot of people are using and it seems to work well.