CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 4929

How can I create a GUI for a text based program?

I'm quite in a basic project for now which is recoding a unix shell in C. It is of course intended to work in a tty which means without a GUI. Though I'd like to add an option to use it with a graphical mode. As it's a text based program, when I launch it with Gnome (using alacarte) it launches itself in a Gnome Terminal. What I want to add is a sort of graphical interface like the Gnome Terminal app. Is there a simple way to put a text based program in a sort of frame with graphical elements in it ? I want to get rid of any other application to launch my shell so when I'm in graphical mode (when not using tty) I want my own frame and not another application that launches it. Can anyone help me ? =)

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Answers (1)

syb0rg
syb0rg

Reputation: 8247

You cannot create a GUI using the standard C library. You can make one with an external library though.

With OpenCV, it is possible to make a GUI, and there is a large community behind the project. You can find lots of code examples and tutorials on their website. In addition, you can use OpenCV for lots of other computer vision related things.

You could also use GTK+ to write a GUI for your program. It is very simple, and easy to use for beginners. It's more focused on graphics though, and if you want another functionality required by an external library, you might not be able to use GTK+.

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