From:	"Stephen Balfe" <Jim AT jbalfe DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	GUI Programming
Date:	Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:21:59 -0000
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Hi everyone,
    I been programming dos and Linux console programs for a little while
now,  and was want to get into some GUI programming, mainly under windows
98.
    I'm using djgpp 2.03 and have had a look at the RSXNTDJ 1.5 set of
programs which I downloaded at the same time.  Having looked at the RSXNTDJ
help files, however, there does not really seen to be enough information at
a basic level to get started.
    I have experimented with some Qt programming under Linux, which I found
very easy to pick up the basics.  However Qt seems to only be commercially
available under windows, and is therefore unsuitable.

    My questions are:
What do most people use for developing GUI programs under Windows?  Is
RSXNTDJ any good?

Where can I find a good online tutorial to learn GUI programming from the
ground up to a good level?

Are there any good books you can recommend?

Is there anything similar to qt which I can use?

Also what is the difference between the 32-bit extended dos applications
output by djgpp's gcc compiler, and the Win32 applications output by
RSXNTDJ's gccwin32 compiler (after-all, presumably, if you link a library
such as Qt when using gcc, then gcc will also output GUI applications [this
is only a guess, I'm not sure if it is correct or not])?

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