Standard C++ and MFC wrapper

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Standard C++ and MFC wrapper

Firstly, I want to have a clearly overall look at MFC, Win32API .

Is:

Win32API: The first layer between hardware and software in prog [ except assembly ] MFC : A wrapper by Microsoft ? It helps us in design GUI and a lot of library for easier and faster programming.

My problem is : I want an easy coding in GUI, no need to write every code line in win32api so I need MFC right ? And somehow I can't get MFC library works [ it costs me 1 day to find that CSocket is really buggy ] . So I intend to use another famous library like Boost .

To clear my question : I know about .Net and C#, but I love C++ so I really want a good way to combine GUI design and speed of C++ .

Is it good to design GUI in .Net and coding in C++, does it have any disadvantage compared to MFC+ C++ .

Thanks first :)

+6 A:

Win32 is the C API to the Windows OS, not to hardware. Many of these functions ask the OS to manipulate hardware on your behalf.

MFC is the original C++ "wrapper" to Win32. It's fairly old now, so if you want "easy coding", may I suggest you look at .NET instead.

Oli Charlesworth 2010-10-24 11:57:07

I edit my question, can you answer it more clearly :)

nXqd 2010-10-24 12:34:32

@nXqd: You can use .NET with C++.

Oli Charlesworth 2010-10-24 13:52:43

does it have any performance compared to MFC + C++

nXqd 2010-10-24 14:43:01

@nXqd: I have no idea! My guess would be that's it pretty much irrelevant; if you have any non-trivial application, most of the processing time should be spent running your business logic (algorithms, etc.), not managing the GUI!

Oli Charlesworth 2010-10-24 14:45:39

+4 A:

The win32 API is the lowest level documented programming interface to Windows.

MFC is a C++ class library providing a fairly thin wrapper around the win32 API.

Boost is not a GUI library. If you must use C++ and don't want to use MFC you could look at QT or wxWidgets.

If you want easy GUI coding use C# and WinForms or WPF.

arx 2010-10-24 12:02:31

I don't say boost is a GUI library, I just want MFC for creating GUI, MFC is enough.But WinForms and WPF is C# tech :)

nXqd 2010-10-24 13:09:01

Sorry, I misunderstood you. If you are going to use MFC and Boost, what was the question?

arx 2010-10-24 13:50:25

Due to my knowledge to know about .Net can use C++ , I edit my question above

nXqd 2010-10-24 14:19:05

About basics: Boost library is not microsoft library and it should not be used for any GUI development. It is an utility library and could be used along with microsoft libararies. It is just an extended version of STL, TR1 and TR2.

It is difficult develop GUI using MFC than C# (especially when you dealing with owner drawn controls/subclassing the controls). So, I would suggest use C# for GUI development and backend you can use C#. Communication between these two can be achieved using socket programming.

Raghuram Reddy N 2010-10-26 07:17:48

I would suggest go for Adobe FLEX GUI tool for developing the GUI which reduces the UI development time as compared to any windows GUI libraries.

Raghuram Reddy N 2010-10-26 07:20:55

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