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Jay Bell
Jay Bell

Reputation: 77

What type of Visual Studio project should I use?

I am going to be making a project with OpenCV and (probably) Qt for GUI and I was just wondering what kind of project I should create in visual studio? Would it be the Win32 Project or Win32 Console Application or just an Empty Project? A lot of them are quite obvious as I am not making a Dll or makefile but do not know the difference between the others. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 575

Answers (2)

Micka
Micka

Reputation: 20160

After installing Qt and maybe a Qt-VisualStudio-Plugin you have some new options when creating a New Project:

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You should choose Qt Application in most cases. Not sure if you can use a GUI with Qt Console Application, but you'll get a terminal/console in that case.

After choosing project name, you can easily choose the Qt Modules you'll need. This adds them to your project settings, so you don't have to add the manually (but I guess you can do so later if you need more modules).

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The project will create a .ui file which you can open/edit with QtDesigner. The project will perform all the moc and uic compile steps automatically and you don't have to add those things manually.

I think this is the easiest way to use the combination of Qt and Visual Studio.

Adding OpenCV to Visual Studio is easy: Just add the include directories and the correct OpenCV libraries.

The question whether to use a consolse application or not depends on your needs. Personally, I like printing development output to a console, but maybe you don't want that in your final project ;)

Upvotes: 2

CodeBlocks
CodeBlocks

Reputation: 253

Which type of project you decide to pick in Visual Studio depends what will best fits your needs. Since I do not know your exact needs, the best answer I can give is explain the difference between the types of Project Options and give examples when you would choose to use the given project:

Win32 Project: A Win32 Project is one of the options Visual Studio provides to you, and if chosen will provide the user with template code that generates a "window", that window being just like any other window (browser window, folder window, etc), but one that your program controls.

Examples: Making a calculator, making an application that needs a window with buttons for the user to communicate with the program, etc.

Win32 Console Application: In this option, Visual Studio provides a Command Prompt interface where the user can input data and also where output can appear. Basically it's the black window where you can input commands and receive information of what is happening in your program.

Examples: When testing out code (it makes debugging easier in some cases), when the program really doesn't need to be too elaborate, etc.

There are other options available, thou these two were mentioned in your post and are probably the most popular among developers.

Upvotes: 3

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