Could someone recommend any good resources for creating Graphics User Interfaces, preferably in C/C++?
Currently my biggest influence is 3DBuzz.com‘s C++/OpenGL VTMs (Video Training Modules). While they are very good, they cover a large area of graphics programming, so only skim the surface of GUI programming.
This question does relate to ‘How do I make a GUI?‘, where there is also a rough outline of my current structure.
Any response would be appreciated.
Edit: I’ve just read some of the answers and spotted that I’ve missed some points. I had to type the question twice as I caught the wrong button and lost it.
I missed two important points, first: This will be used cross platform including homebrew on a Sony PSP. Second: I want to create a GUI system not use an existing one.
Edit 2: I think some of you are missing the point, I don’t what to use an existing GUI system I want to build one.
Qt in it’s current form is not portable to the PSP, never mind the overkill of such a task.
That said I’ve decided to create an IM-GUI, and have started to prototype the code.
I wouldn’t use OpenGL for the GUI unless you are planning for hardware accelerated and/or 3D effects that you don’t think you would get with a more traditional GUI toolkit (e.g Qt, wxWidgets, GTK, etc). If you just need a quick simple GUI for hosting your OpenGL graphics then FLTK is a nice choice. Otherwise, for rendering the GUI directly in OpenGL their are libraries like Crazy Eddie’s GUI that do just that and provide lots of skinnable widgets that you won’t have to reinvent. The window and OpenGL context could then be provide with a portable library like SDL.
EDIT: Now that I’ve gone back and taken at look your other post I think I have a better understanding of what you are asking. For a GUI on an embedded system like the Nintendo DS, I would consider using an ‘immediate mode’ GUI. Jari Komppa has a good tutorial about them, but you could use a more object-oriented approach with C++ than the C code he presents.