Hello listers,
IUP library is the easiest way I found to create graphical interfaces via code.
I'd like to install it with Dev-C. Well, I think I am not bad in programming,
but I am very stupede in setting the environment. I searched something in
Google, but it was not possible to reproduce the steps. I am blind. By means
of a screen reader, I can program easily. However, the information I found were
images of the screen. Without characters, the computer is not able to speak
anything.
The natural question is: if you are blind why do you have interest in GUIs?
Doesn't the command line style satisfy your needs? For programming the text
mode is good, but screen readers as a whole have few features to handle with
it. Therefore, I need to program with GUI. I could not use a form designer
because I can't set the controls in their right positions. I need to codify
and, for this task, I intend to use a geometry manager. For each control, in
stead of pointing the proportions, I use containers and abstrract relations.
TK, GTK, QT, Wxwidgets and IUP follow this philosophy. However, regarding the
compatibility with the screen reader, I have selected two of then: Wxwidgets
and IUP. The last one is much easier than Wxwidgets, so It was my choice. It is
not my intension to produce beautiful windows. I am blind, so it was not
important. But I need to organize the controls and, consequently, the screen
reader behaves properly. With IUP, the effort is minimum. In a few minutes, I
have my GUI.
I know the solution, but I could not understand how to install IUP with Dev-C
or another compiler. Could someone help me?
b
