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Re: Creating Windows GUIs with C++

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So much for being able to distribute just my executable.
Oh, that's one advantage of WTL I forgot to mention. WTL requires no additional DLLs unless you explicitly decide to link to additional libraries. And in that case you know what you require. Also, your application can be quite small since you don't drag in things you're not using.
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Re: Creating Windows GUIs with C++

Wow! Now I remember why I gave up on Win32 so long ago. I was in pretty much you exact position 5 years ago. After running into so many "gotchas" (I had a different word for them), I decided to cut my losses. I switched to Python and haven't looked back.

I won't start a holy war thread here, but you may want to carefully consider exactly what you want to do, and then compare your available language options before committing.

I would also like to highly recommend "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" by Allen Downey. You can download it for free at http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
Allen Downey is a prof at Olin College (my alma mater). Several years ago he wrote a Java version of the book and copy-lefted it. Someone took the book, revised it for Python, and rereleased it. Allen then read this book and learned Python.

... Yes, he learned Python by reading his own book!

It has some chapters that deal with a little bit of user interfacing, so it shouldn't be hard at all to get going.

Good luck!
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Re: Creating Windows GUIs with C++

Not to be a killjoy but I know someone who uses python and his application is fairly slow, for the simplest of programs you have to package the exe with tons of files, it just seems like a hassle. If you are going to learn a different language to do it C# is the way to go. C# is the most similar to C++ as well
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