how can visual programming?

[seyed]

Hi
How we can visual programmin in fedora 17 with Eclipse or other app like MFC and Windows form app in Microsofte Visual Studio? I want to program visually and create the forms and windows and manage and create the relation bethween them and use with SQL but i don't know how do i it?

i saw the QT4 Designer but i could not use that and i didn't find any place for programmin by code with C families (C/C++ /C#).

thnx

[ferry]

Try Kdevelop

[Gareth Jones]

It depends what desktop environment you're most concerned with, although programs using different tool-kits do integrate much better these days than of old.

If you're interested in Qt (preferred by KDE), KDevelop is your best option.

For other desktops (GNOME, Cinnamon, LXDE, Xfce etc...), GTK+ applications are more "native". Anjuta is a good option for those.

[seyed]

thank you Ferry and Gareth Jones too for helping me.

I installed GTK+ but i don't know how to execute it. do you know any ebooks of Kdevelop and GTK+? If you know please introduce me.

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by seyed

I installed GTK+ but i don't know how to execute it.

GTK+ is a set of libraries. You "execute" it by writing software that uses the GTK+ APIs.

Originally Posted by seyed

do you know any ebooks of Kdevelop and GTK+? If you know please introduce me.

KDevelop Handbook

[Gareth Jones]

GTK+ and Qt etc. are library frameworks for building programs (much like the .NET class library), and don't do anything on their own. Check out the documentation at http://www.gtk.org/documentation.php (for C) and http://www.gtkmm.org/en/documentation.html (for C++ with Gtkmm bindings).

For C# on Linux you need Mono and Gtk# (http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharp), although Gtk# is a bit out of date at the moment (GTK+2 only). If you want a C#-like language that better integrates with GNOME/GTK+, take a look at Vala instead.

KDevelop is a bit of an odd choice for GNOME/GTK+ development, but from memory I think it can do that without too much messing around. For C# you might want to try MonoDevelop instead.

[Gareth Jones]

(Also I've moved the thread into the Programming forum, which is more suitable for these sorts of questions.)

[Fenrin]

Originally Posted by seyed

[...](C/C++ /C#).

thnx

C# is not as well supported on Linux than C/C++. But if you are really interested in C#, then this is an option: Monodevelop together with GTK2 probably.

The IDE's monodevelop, anjuta, kdevelop, codeblocks are all in the Fedora repository. Just install it via "yum install kdevelop anjuta".

Codeblocks has also support for GTK+, QT4 and wxWidgets (but for GTK it's probably better to choose anjuta, for QT kdevelop).

recently there was a similar thread:
HOw to get started?

[seyed]

I can't see graphical forms and designing in Kdevelop. I think we should design graphically windows in Qt and use them in Kdevelop. Is it tru?

[RupertPupkin]

For C++ development with Qt try QtCreator, which is in the Fedora repos:

yum install qt-creator

By the way, there's one member of the "C family" that hasn't been mentioned yet: Objective-C. For that you could install GNUstep, a free implementation of Apple's Cocoa APIs. GNUstep has a GUI designer called Gorm, similar to Apple's Interface Builder tool. It's all in the Fedora repos:

yum install gnustep-back gnustep-base-devel gnustep-gui-devel gorm

[Gareth Jones]

Originally Posted by seyed

I can't see graphical forms and designing in Kdevelop. I think we should design graphically windows in Qt and use them in Kdevelop. Is it tru?

If you're using GTK+/Gtkmm, the program for creating windows visually is Glade. For GTK#, I think you need Stetic.

I'm not sure about Qt, but KDevelop should have a way of doing it.