Re: how to make a very complicated GUI

nleahcim@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi - I am starting to look at doing something that I think will be
amazingly difficult. I ideally would like to do this in C, as that is
what I am best in. I can handle C++ but I am not particuarly fond of
that language. I also have extensive experience with Javascript, HTML,
and CSS. I used to do alot of Visual Basic 6, though it's been a while.

Here's a list of what I'd like to be able to include all in one screen:
-two way serial communication (using serial ports) (absolutely
essential feature)
-must work on Windows, Linux would be great but not essential
-ability to graph planes, points, lines, etc. in a 3-D field of some
sort. This isn't absolutely essential but would be really really nice
-ability to embed a webpage within the program. Specifically, I want to
have google maps embedded in the application. I also need to accomplish
some communication between google maps and the program - it won't be
static.
-all sorts of input things - buttons, slider bars, etc.
-lots of text feedback, the ability to graph would be great, etc.

I have a huge amount of C programming experience, but everything I do
is either run from a command line or is run on an embedded system.
Never done anything with a GUI except for when I did some VB6 apps.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish any of this? If at all possible I
want to have this all be done in C. Currently, I compile all my C
programs either through SSH on a linux system, or through Cygwin on my
own system. Thus I've never even, as far as I know, compiled a C
program for native windows.

Thanks!

-Mike
look at www.wxwidgets.org :)

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