Windows/Mac GUI

[P-man]

Hey there

So i thought id see if anyone has experiences with creating GUI's in windows. I would say im quite a competent programmer in C/C++ but i want to move away from the console output.

Now i know i can use VB to create GUI's and generally apps with awesome speed but im not happy with relying on the .Net framework.

So from what i have read so far it seems Winapi and MFC is the way to go? If anyone has experiences with either, or some alternative that doesnt rely on the .Net framework i would like to hear what you think of it.

Also as a more of an interest query, i was wondering what people thought about creating a GUI for OS X. Is it easier than windows? More flexible? etc.

Cheers

 

[Una]

I would look into wxWidgets. Its cross platform, so you can use it on both Windows and Mac. Winapi is feeling very dated these days, I still use it sometimes though. What you got to remember is that WinAPI is not just for GUI's it contains a whole host of other functionality.
I have never tried creating a GUI for Macos, however I have used wxWidgets and GTK on linux plenty of times. You could also write your own windowing system and use something like SDL to blit the images. This is what I use in games.