Moving out of the Terminal

[projectgonewrong]

Okay I have been doing C++ for like a year and a half and have been TI (calculator) programming for over 2 years. I can do pretty much anything in C++ in the Terminal window.

But how do I make windows and such, I know its a pretty broad question. The Terminal window is kinda lame. So anyways how do you get out of the dumb Terminal and make a window. Like some example code or tutorials or something?

[Wybiral]

Have you tried using a library like ncurses with the terminal to make your stuff a little more graphical?

What kind of windows? GUI's like applications have, or graphical windows like games?

Either way, the key is to find a good library for it. GTK is pretty popular for GUI's, and SDL is pretty popular for games.

[lnostdal]

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
http://www.gtk.org/api/ (in particular http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/index.html )



sudo aptitude install gnome-core-devel


..remember to use pkg-config when compiling/linking as described in the GTK+ tutorial.

edit:
i think we posted at the same time (below)

[projectgonewrong]

nevermind, he posted while I was responding to first guy.

[thethawav]

I'd consider using GTKmm in combination with C++ (gtk enhanced by c++ bindings)

[projectgonewrong]

How do I set up SDL? Like is there a terminal command to get it?

[lnostdal]

aptitude search libsdl | grep dev

[projectgonewrong]

This is the result:

wesley@ubuntu:~$ aptitude search libsdl | grep dev
E: /home/wesley/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13 Permission denied)
p libsdl-console-dev - development files for libsdl-console
v libsdl-dev -
p libsdl-gfx1.2-dev - development files for SDL_gfx
p libsdl-image1.2-dev - development files for SDL 1.2 image loadin
p libsdl-mixer1.2-dev - development files for SDL1.2 mixer library
p libsdl-net1.2-dev - Development files for SDL network library
p libsdl-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for SDL - development files
p libsdl-sge-dev - development files for libsdl-sge
p libsdl-sound1.2-dev - Development files for SDL_sound
p libsdl-stretch-dev - Development files for SDL_stretch library
p libsdl-ttf1.2-dev - development files for libsdl-ttf1.2
p libsdl-ttf2.0-dev - development files for SDL ttf library (ver
p libsdl1.2-dev - Simple DirectMedia Layer development files

How do I fix this problem?

[Wybiral]

If you want OpenGL too, I explained how to get SDL and OpenGL here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=395396

If not, just omit the OpenGL related stuff.

[lnostdal]

just do
sudo aptitude install libsdl-dev

[projectgonewrong]

Where do I get "SDL/SDL_ttf.h" is there something I can type in Terminal to get it.

[Wybiral]

I would suggest searching either google or synaptic... Synaptic is a better choice.

Thats the ttf font extension for SDL.

Here's the command to install them


sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-ttf2.0-dev


Although a quick search in your package manager would have brought them up...

[projectgonewrong]

Oh I only did one of those earlier it works now thanks.