is there any good TUI library (in C or C++) for Widndows?
I've found pdCurses which is more like the ncurses but it lacks a lot of nCurses libraries.
If you would ask on why am I finding a TUI library in 21th Century, It's because for a school project (Gosh those old programming teachers!)
Thanks! :)
Cygwin has a fully functional ncurses, I think.
Of course, if you build with Cygwin, it needs Cygwin to run, but that's the deal.
Whenever I've dealt with TUI apps, pdCurses has always been enough, but we didn't need that much.
There is a Turbovision port for Windows.
Turbovision was a TUI created by Borland back in the DOS days and also used in their products.
More info can also be found here
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I want to start making graphical user interfaces in C++ in some IDE, easy to learn and have enough documentation and examples. Besides being multiplatform, ie the final application can be run on both Linux and Windows
Some suggestions or experiences?
I would recommend Qt Creator.
The Qt libraries are multiplatform, cover a wide range of features and are well documented; the IDE too runs almost everywhere, is really easy to set up and is very well integrated with the library.
Other open source alternatives may be the wxWidgets with e.g. CodeBlocks, but in my opinion they aren't as good (in terms of completeness and documentation), and you don't have such a good integration with the IDE (also, in my experience setting up wxWidgets development on Windows needs some work).
You can use Eclipse which is open source and works well on Linux/Windows . There is descent documentation available as well..
I would like to ask this question to those people who have an experience in coding using Turbo C++ 3.0.
I'm trying to make a text user interface console application with it and I see that Turbo C++ 3 has an option to link turbo vision in your program.
Using this: Options -> Linker -> Libraries -> Check Turbo Vision.
Know my question is that how could I start using it in my program?
I tried to include but to no avail, or to not include the header also.
Note: If you know of other way to develop C++/C console apps with text user interface, then please feel free to answer to.
Thanks!
Edit: Please do not comment to not to use Turbo C++ because it's old. I'm just trying to create a console app with text user interface for our project. Thanks :)
Turbo Vision is out dated and no more maintained. However, if have you
stronger reasons to use a completely 'The DOOM' game era TUI tool kit,
they go ahead else i would suggest using ncurses it is a portable
TUI toolkit,
As note, Turbo Vision library has potentially unsafe pointers. It is not a safe
library to use in this era, and it is a DOS 'only' thing, those there are ports to
POSIX based environment , i still doubt its safety.
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I want a portable C++ IDE for general development, and too to develop basic Windows GUI applications.
In my research, I've found this (with latest version date):
CodeLite IDE (2010-04-02)
Ultimate++ (2010-03-16)
Qt Creator (2010-02-01)
NetBeans (2009-12-10)
Code::Blocks (2008-02-28)
Bloodshed Dev-C++ (2005-02-22)
But I don't know if some these IDE's supports Windows GUI development (or Cross Platform GUI development) or if can be portable (NetBeans can be portable).
EDIT: Reading the replies and doing more research, I'm near to choose between NetBeans or Qt Creator. But Qt Creator is 287mb (big for portable development). So sad looks that NetBeans, even being small (c++ is near to 30mb) needs Qt library for GUI (278mb)...
Qt Creator is a good choice if you want to code cross platform GUI programs.
Qt is an excellent cross platform GUI library.
The bash shell (and it's tools) + vim + cmake + mercurial = love. Bash is available on all popular platforms, even windows
p.s., I forgot gdb + ddd.
The IDEs you named are all cross-platform and available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. That said, you only really need to make your code cross-platform (use Boost and Qt to do that). I personally use Xcode on Mac OS X, GEdit or Anjuta or KDevelop on Linux, and Code::Blocks on Windows. You might also be interested in my C++ Application Project Template and C++ Library Project Template, which provide a portable cross-platform build using the CMake build system, and which uses both Boost and Qt; the application project template already has code to create a "hello world" GUI if you use the flag "--gui".
I should also point out that CMake is capable of generating project files for a wide variety of IDEs, so an advantage of a CMake build is that you can generate makefiles (the default), but you can also generate a Visual Studio project (Windows), a KDevelop project (Linux), or an Xcode project (OS X) from just the one project description file, allowing one to use the native IDE for that particular development platform.
You can make a portable NetBeans, as well as Code::Blocks, Geany, Dev-C++, or Eclipse.
Any of the above should be able to do Windows GUI or cross-platform GUI development, just make sure you have a copy of all necessary libraries on your flash drive. If you use portable Cygwin on the flash drive, you can include gcc (so your IDE has a compiler as well) and the cygwin versions of a variety of UI libraries (gtk, FLTK, wxwidgets, qt, etc etc).
An alternate route that I have seen some people take is to load up a Linux installation in a virtual machine, then carry that around on the flash drive along with something like Portable VirtualBox. I would recommend copying it to the hard drive first, the performance would be terrible running it straight off the flash drive.
Have you considered Vim. Not exactly an IDE but you could easily put versions on one USB stick to allow you to run anywhere.
For some things I like Eclipse but it is only portable in your sense if Java is installed on the host machine. The other big problem with Eclipse is that it is fairly machine demanding and in my opinion requires a fast SMP machine to work well. Frankly though I don't use Eclipse for any of the "C" languages right now.
A slightly tougher choice might be EMACS again using the same approach as with Vim. That is putting multiple copies for your different target machines on a USB stick.
In the end I have to second something else suggested, that is the best portable IDE is a laptop. For example you can have several very good IDEs installed on a Mac and easily transfer files to a target machine. Being Unix it is fairly easy to install the GCC or LLVM of your choice even cross compilers. The big problem with a USB dongle approach is that you never can be sure of having everything you need there.
Xemacs. If you want something that you can keep on a flash drive with a ton of other tools. It isn't full features, but sure is a step up for writing software than vim.
Well, it doesn't have a portable version, but as a general and multi-platform IDE, I would definitely go with Komodo Edit. I love the autocompletion and call-tips features. They boosted my coding speed and productivity by 1000x. I know I sound like an ad, but don't worry, it's my most sincere opinion.
If you want cross-platform development, I agree with whoever mentions Qt. It's a really great, reliable (depends on your requirements, of course) and flexible cross-platform framework.
Good luck!
I was reading today question on IDEs fo C++, and there are very good ones like Netbeans.
My question is about creating a software in C++ on Windows Environment, but let users install and run my software also on Linux and OSX.
Does netbeans has a compiler to do the job, or is there any good IDE which has a compiler for targeting my c++ code to these other environments?
thank you
QtCreator. It's awesome, slick and everything.
While it is not as feature rich as some competitors, it does many things just right that others don't.
I would say it is the one truly cross-platform IDE that is competitive to single-platform solutions. And it comes with tight integration of a very powerful and clean cross-platform toolkit. Something that you need for most cross-platform applications by itself.
I use Eclipse CDT and have had some degree of success. But I'm a Java programmer, so it's what I'm used to. It's worth checking out, and the extensions are quite cool.
Many people like Code::Blocks and it is cross-platform, with integrated debugging, code completion, etc. Qt Creator is also good and at least still very minimalistic.
Without a doubt VisualStudio with gnu make.
I've found Visual Studio to have the best IDE for C++. In addition, it's debugger and the way it handles multi-threaded applications is excellent.
And you can tweak the properties for your project to use different compilers and compiler flags of your choice, so it can build to any target.
You're talking about cross-compiling as GMan said, that's a compiler job, not IDE's and itu's kind of hard to make C++ software that runs well on Linux/Windows/MacOSX, C++ isn't a cross plataform language beacuse of its ABI, so you should try to use C++ standart code.
If you're making a consloe application there's no much problem just be care not to use system interface, but if you're planning to do some kind of graphics app then C++ it not the better choice for your purpose. Try some design that split the view from the controller/model of the app.
You can use QtCreator or NetBeans. First on C++ secord on Java. Both use MinGW g++.
Just a thought: you don't need to use a single IDE for all platforms. It is very common, for example, to use Visual Studio on Windows and Xcode on Mac OS X for cross-platform projects. I'm not familiar with Linux IDEs thought so couldn't recommend anything there.
Write makefiles for each OS? Simple enough seems to me.
Concerning cross plattform development it doesn't make a difference which IDE you use. Just make sure you use a cross platform (and possibly IDE independent) build system like SCons or cmake.
I have a friend who is trying to make the switch to Linux, but is hung up on the apparent lack of debugging/IDE environments for C++, especially as they relate to template programming. He has been using visual studio for years and is maybe a little spoiled by their awesome IDE. Does anyone have any good suggestions for an environment where he can, under Linux, develop and debug with all of the usual things (Breakpoints, line highlighting for compilation errors, step in/over/out/etc, etc) that he's accustomed to? Thanks!
How about Eclipse + CDT ?
Although many people think of it as a Java IDE, he could try NetBeans. I've used it on Windows for C and C++ development without a problem, and I know NetBeans is supported on Linux, so it would be worth a shot.
It looks like most of the features he wants are included in the C/C++ development toolkit, including integration with GDB, a profiler, and more.
Visual Studio is good, indeed.
On the free side:
Qt Creator is getting quite good too, it's worth a try. There are advantageous by-products coming from the Qt framework:
huge library - not only to build GUI applications but for other domains as well
portability on multiple platforms
A version 1.3 beta is available as a preview of the upcoming release but the current 1.2.1 is already all you need to manage projects.
Eclipse has already been mentioned, it's a very good environment offering many plug-ins (Mylyn, SVN, ...).
MonoDevelop somewhat supports C++ (more and more, I didn't check the latest version).
I've used Eclipse for C/C++ and it's pretty useful. It's also used at ACM ICPC World Finals http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc
I'd recommand Code::Blocks (but use a nighty build). It can be coupled with gdb to enable step by step debugging and all that stuff.
Not exactly an IDE but SublimeText 2/3 is available on Linux now. There may be a debugger plugin for it too, who knows.
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Here's a gdb plugin for SublimeText
I havn't explored it personally, but Emacs has a C++ development addon that looks very much like a full IDE.
About 7 years ago I used KDevelop that was shipped with KDE. I found it quite good back than, and I hope it also improved with the time. I found it quite comparable to VC++ 6 at this time.
It also contains Qt support, if you are in need for some GUI toolkit.
Depends, Code::Blocks is good, Eclipse is very nice too, but you will need a very good computer. In my opinion the best choice iss gcc, gdb and ViM or Gedit.
My buddies from work use Eclipse + Scons, they also use Valgrind(spelling?) for tracking memory leaks and such.
Many of the IDE features you listed were debugger features. The ddd (Data Display Debugger) debugger is quite a nice GUI wrapper for gdb, allowing graphical representation of data structures, a non-crappy source listing window (ie. unlike the l command of gdb where you don't get context), and also allows you to use any and all native gdb commands directly if desired.
Have a look at CodeLite. It's available for Ubuntu and Fedora out of the box and even for Windows and Mac. So you can have the same IDE on different platforms.
We tried Eclipse and NetBeans but left them due to their huge CPU and memory usage. We have a development server and all the developers connect to it via RDC. Thats why these IDEs miserably failed in our model.
So, we looked for some native IDE. Found CodeBlocks to be very good and super fast. We sort of settled on it but later found CodeLite and liked it better than CodeBlocks.
I just seeing this question after 12+ years. AnyHow I just writing my answer. I personally use Quincy IDE for C and C++ development. it is very lite weight and debugging watch list is very much good and easy to use. I'm just attaching the link to the site. try it.
But you have to install it with wine.
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