<p>Now that I know <code>C++</code> I want to get into desktop application that have a UI instead of <code>Command Prompt</code> stuff, where should I start?, and what are some good <strong>online</strong> resources?</p>

[{'answer_id': 48305, 'author': 'Roddy', 'author_id': 1737, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1737', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I use <a href="http://www.codegear.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Codegear</a>\'s C++ Builder. It\'s C++ language support is not 100% but it more than makes up for it by having a great two-way RAD IDE and the ability to use a huge library of existing Delphi components.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48309, 'author': 'Steve Beedie', 'author_id': 4377, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4377', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wxWidgets</a> is a cross platform GUI library for C++ (and other languages). The main site should have enough pointers to resources to get going.</p>\n\n<p>You might also want to check out <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4347/where-is-a-good-place-to-start-programming-guis-for-windows">this</a> question/answer here on stack overflow if you are specifically thinking of Windows</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48328, 'author': 'Peter Stuifzand', 'author_id': 1633, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1633', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>On Linux and maybe Windows, you can use <a href="http://gtk.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Gtk+</a> with <a href="http://glade.gnome.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Glade</a>. Gtk+ is the GUI toolkit. Glade is a GUI drag and drop GUI editor. If you came from Windows or Java and thought GUI programming is hard, this stuff is easy.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48330, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>How about <a href="http://trolltech.com/products/qt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">QT</a>? Its cross-platform and its is used in a lot of commercial softwares.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48342, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If marketability is a concern, then C++/CLI with WinForms and WPF which really translates to "just learn WinForms and WPF, regardless of what specific language you use".</p>\n\n<p>CodeProject has <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/info/search.aspx?artkw=Winforms+OR+WPF" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a ton of WinForms/WPF samples/tutorials</a> to get you started.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48346, 'author': 'Brian Warshaw', 'author_id': 1344, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1344', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://fox-toolkit.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Fox GUI Toolkit</a></p>\n\n<p>Really decent tried-and-true toolkit with a very nice event system. I\'ve used the Ruby port, and my Windows apps had a very native look and feel.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48388, 'author': 'David Dibben', 'author_id': 5022, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5022', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If cross platform support is important then I would second the suggestion to look at Qt. It supports Windows, Linux and the Mac. For free software it is free (there is a GPL version on Unix but not for Windows) but for comercial software it is not particulary cheap. There are now several books on Programming with Qt.  </p>\n\n<p>It does come with a large number of extra libraries for networking, parsing XML etc. It also has integration with Visual Studio on Windows. </p>\n\n<p>One downside with Qt is that there are not as many add on libraries as with some other GUI frameworks. Ot will depend on the type of applications that you wish to write whether this is important to you or not.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48513, 'author': 'Landon', 'author_id': 1597, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1597', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>It might lack some features, but <a href="http://www.fltk.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FLTK</a> is an incredibly simple cross-platform GUI library.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71509, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you are using Windows the traditional place to start is <a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/157231995X" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Petzold</a> </p>\n\n<p>There is a nice simple framework <a href="http://users.bigpond.net.au/programming/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> which will help you on the way without abstracting too much away.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71515, 'author': 'Nick', 'author_id': 1490, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1490', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Get Visual Studio Express, and start with a MFC "Dialog Based" application.  All the window toolkits mentioned are good, but MFC will look the best on a resume!</p>\n'}]
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