DeLoRtEd1

Hi, it's obvious I'm brand new here, but I thought I could find some code gurus to help solve my kind of non-existant problem.
Basically, for my Sci-Tech fair at my school, my friends and I decided to write a program that basically did your physics homework for you.
You're given a menu of cout'ed choices that include sections of general grade 11 physics, IE one section would be on waves, another on velocity vs time vs distance.. anyways. Screenshot following
So basically, instead of a black and white textual adventure through calculations, I thought i'd try and create some kind of GUI, similar to the calculator that comes loaded with windows. Could anyone help me on this? Thanks - del

coldDeath

You coudl look into the Qt toolkit, at trolltech.com. Qt 4.1 opensource is free for windows, but any programs you make can't be sold. It comes witha visual designer, but you can design in code as well. Theres also loads of documentation on the net about it, its worth a try ;-)

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mikaoj

FLTK is a very simple and easy GUI tool...

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nnxion

Take a dialog box as main window, then you can use the built-in GUI editor from Visual C++.

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Ooble

Man, I wish my physics homework was this easy. :p

If you're using Visual C++ 2005, go with the form designer built in. It's actually very good. Otherwise, as other people have said, Qt is your best bet.

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Jessehk

If you're on Windows, I would try using WinForms. If you are on Linux, then I would say Qt is your best bet.

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Dragon_Master

Try the forger's tutorial. It helped me learn API really well.

DeLoRtEd1

I haven't taken any looks at these.. but are they easy to figure out for someone who is pretty much only done iostreaming? I don't want it in iostream, because then it seems to easy for the other people who are in my physics class / comp science.

Cerulean

No, you can sell applications made with the GPL, but you have to provide source code along with them and the right to re-distribute or re-use according to the terms of the GPL. I can imagine it working quite nicely if you're selling applications to other students - this way they can put their money together and purchase one copy and then make a copy for each other.

C++ is a lot more than just displaying things to the terminal or reading things from the terminal and arithmetic. If you can grasp the basics of object orientated programming (inheritance, etc) and pointers in the language, then you can use Qt without much of a problem. Heck, if you stick to the designer and use it to connect up your signals and slots you only have to write a couple of lines of code and you're set.