[Solved] how to create a gui to invoke a .exe or .cpp file?

Question

There seems to be a bit of a language barrier, so let me attempt to state what I think I understand before providing my answer.

It appears that you’re in a Compilers class, and your project is to write a C++ compiler. You’ve chosen to program this project using C++, with the help of bison and flex. Now that your project is effectively complete, you’d like to add a GUI to it (I guess in some way making steps towards it becoming an IDE).

Writing a GUI in C++ isn’t as easy as I’d like for it to be. From friends that have had to do the same thing in their compilers and graphics classes, I hear that this book is a good start for using Qt to make GUI programs in C++. With regard to programming the GUI in Java, you’ll probably be using the swing library; and I always just read the javadocs (linked). But again, I haven’t done that since University.

Hope that helps some! Good luck!

Accepted Answer

There seems to be a bit of a language barrier, so let me attempt to state what I think I understand before providing my answer.

It appears that you’re in a Compilers class, and your project is to write a C++ compiler. You’ve chosen to program this project using C++, with the help of bison and flex. Now that your project is effectively complete, you’d like to add a GUI to it (I guess in some way making steps towards it becoming an IDE).

Writing a GUI in C++ isn’t as easy as I’d like for it to be. From friends that have had to do the same thing in their compilers and graphics classes, I hear that this book is a good start for using Qt to make GUI programs in C++. With regard to programming the GUI in Java, you’ll probably be using the swing library; and I always just read the javadocs (linked). But again, I haven’t done that since University.

Hope that helps some! Good luck!