14:31 "and then click build" > clicks build "but before you click build and this is really important" > heart drops "go and make yourself a cup of coffee" > heart starts beating again

I find most tutorial videos almost impossible to sit through. They're either aimed too low, assuming the viewer is a complete newbie, or too high, assuming the viewer is an (insert latest framework here) acolyte. You are the refreshing exception. An outlier, no less. The content is without fluff or fat, and your presentation style is comfortable and never, ever, condescending. The editing is perfect for the content and your whiteboard presentations never grate. Your style is engaging and you never stray far from the point. The jokes are subtle and never grate. You are never anything other than yourself. I hardly ever write comments but today I felt the spirit. Congratulations on producing a most splendid channel and long may you love doing what you're doing, and passing that love on to us. Thank you.

I’m a lower level programmer with a year or so experience in GUI programming. This video struck a perfect balance of high level concepts, and low level implementation. Instant sub!

I recommend making a cup of coffee AFTER clicking “build” button ;)

I was just wondering yesterday how to add a GUI to my program, so the timing of this video was absolutely perfect.

2:20 - "Three million years ago" 🤣

i am so jealous of this generation of new developers who get to benefit from stuff like this. you make some amazing content and i wish you were around when i was first trying to learn software engineering.

"I've never used a Mac." I see you are a man of culture as well.

I took one look at the GUI code generated by Visual Studio and backed away slowly, not taking my eyes off it until I was a safe distance away. Then I closed and did not save.

I was pissed when he used x and y in that nested for loop. This comment made by i and j gang

I really wish you had more time to make more videos! They are incredibly well thought out and insightful, and you actually put in the effort to explain why you make certain decisions. For example, I was able to (semi) easily translate your Asteroids game into C to run on a Linux embedded system/FPGA device with external peripherals for a school project last semester. I'm able to go from 0 to 100 quickly when learning from your videos. Thank you!

I've searched far and wide for C++ related tutorials(video) for a developer who is good at C#, Java, Python, Web Frameworks, ..., and found very little results which satisfied me. They all start at vars, loops, ... and then they conclude at stl(most of the times). Finally, at long last, found someone who's teaching advanced stuff. Thank you for the tutes! Have a great day

Totally love this tutorial!!! First time using Visual Studio(downloaded 2019 uninstalled, then installed 2017 for same look, First time using wxWidgets, First time using C++. From compiling wxWidgets to memory leak at the end which I figured out how to fix. Everything works!!! Great Job!!!

Lately, I have been getting quite pissed at the courses I'm taking in my masters degree of computer science, specifically the software track because even though I've been studying computer science for 5.5 years now, I have never learned how to create any actual software, from GUI's to proper back ends, to proper databases, and how to properly connect them all in a secure way for actual deployment. Nor have I been taught how to properly make any modern website, webapp, mobile app, game, system etc. And I have been having so many deadlines and assignments that are more research-oriented that I have no energy or time left to learn these things on my own time. Since yesterday I have had a bit of free time and finally decided to try to make my first GUI desktop app. However, for some reason information on this topic is so hard to get by online, there are no main hubs where I can find information it seems, so this video picked my interest. I liked the approach to showing some different options and giving some context, which is what I wanted. So, thanks for that

"Why won't it bloody compile?" is often the giant step of disheartenment for me for new libraries and frameworks.

I was wondering why no one talks about a cross-platform C++ gui... and you come with this video! You are incredible!

I hope you will continue with this series because I use wxwidgets and I often have difficulty understanding. You are great, another precious video. Thanks a lot.

Thank you very much! C++ is the only language I have any handle on, and I've been wanting to write an app with a GUI for a couple years now. Finally I can! I followed your instructions and everything compiled and ran, start to finish, ending with mine-sweeper. Cheers!

My God, the feeling when you said "but wait, before you click build, and this is very important..." literally a second after I clicked build cannot be described by words

Oh dear sweet God and Jesus that mess at 18:40 takes me back to when I was learning the Win32 API in x86 Assembly...

No mom, I'm not procrastinating

Awesome tutorial! One of the very few times I've been able to sit through a lengthy tutorial without falling asleep and actually have everything work as described, too.

"Some of us just love C++ so much that that's the language we are going to stick with"... I love your channel! I'm a recent graduate in computer science and C++ is BY FAR my favourite language. I'm at page 353 in "The C++ Programming Language" book. Keep the great videos coming! C++ for life!

The way you code it on the fly makes it look easily feasible, honestly following the code I really didn't see how 45mn went on. Very clear and well explained. Great thanks for the time and effort spent on this, and for efficiently sharing practical knowledge the way you do. Hell I did sub and hit the bell!

I'm learning a lot from your videos! thank you. I do not speak English very well but you explain yourself clearly :)

"I've never used a Mac" .. I love you

Staunch Qt C++ developer here, and I've done Qt for ~10 years. I still love it, but your low-sodium pitch on Wx has me interested. Great video.

Thank you for speaking clearly! So many tutorials I stop watching after a very short time because the presenter is either mumbling, talking too fast and slurring, or speaking with such a thick foreign accent that I have to focus so hard on hearing what they say that my brain can't focus on what they're actually talking about.

You had me at "it's like applying a cheese grater to one's buttocks."

Well you see, my laptop is slow so I was able to have 2 cups of coffee instead of one

Bravo. I loved the comment about programmers working on large libraries having to spend a lot of time on managing build setup. Most if not all of the professional projects I have worked on involved hundred if not thousands of files and the compile times were measured in minutes (more than 60 sometimes). Thanks for the reality check.

dude. i find it funny that anytime i need something random always your videos pop up to save me 😂

Besides from making me interested in GUI programming, you just taught me how to play mineswepper by understanding how its code works.

13:34 It should be noted that Visual Studio 2017 = Visual Studio Version 15.x

just wanted to add my voice to the praise you have received for this video. It has been extremely clear and has been a much needed resource for me. Thank you!

A quick tip :) First start build process 10:30 then watch first ten minutes of video

For anyone else having a bunch of build errors popping up, my solution was to enable the "Windows 10 SDK" under the "Visual Components" tab in the Visual Studio installer.

Just a correction: the wx solution name (wx_vc15.sln) doesn't mean Visual Studio 15, but it stands for the version of Visual Studio in the Installer, which is 15.x.x for Visual Studio 17, 16.x.x for VS19 etc...

My first time trying to learn c++ started with me opening the default window application, looking at the wall of code, and going immediately to java. I've since decided java isnt my cup of tea for a paticular program i am working on, and this video has given me hope once again.

your humor slips in subtly now and then and now I'm on my couch laughing at computer jokes on Saturday night

"... and printing stuff - for those that still print things."

15:00 There's actually a few programs that overcome this issue, it's called "CCache" and "DistCC", we use those at my office. It reduced compile times from about 45 minutes to just 5 minutes. Another thing to consider is the MSVC compiler is much slower than GCC.

Can I just say thank you!! I've spent a while building some code that does a bunch of small quality of life things that I needed to do while I was working on my honors project last year and now I'm finished I wanted to wrap it in a GUI so that it's more user friendly, I realised when I got to the end of the project converting it all to python would probably have been easier than trying to figure out GUI with C++. I had a brief encounter with MFC before deciding that I was not going to be able to figure that out (documentation is dense, and not a lot of great examples). Then your video pop's up on my radar, I'm up and running in a day and able to just get on with it. Thank you so much, trying to find a framework is hard enough without tutorials teaching you to set everything up just to stop before showing you any code and leaving you high and dry. This was the perfect amout of technical detail for me to just dive right in and the code examples wx widgets offers looks like enough to get everything that I need off the ground. Honestly have no idea how much easier you have made my life. Hats off to you Sir. :)

It wouldn't surprise me if this channel alone is responsible for a resurgence in C++. I haven't done any C++ for 20 odd years now, but am about to jump back in (head first).

Is it a bad sign that I don't find WINAPI code messy anymore? 🤔😂 Have I been doing this for too long? 🤔🤔

"I've never used a Mac." Hey I'm finally subscribing.

I have had a dip into GTK and even xcb before, and I must say I am very pleased by the tiny amount of boilerplate code needed to create a wxWidgets program. Thank you!

Just getting back into C++ after a long hiatus. I remember using MFC way back in 'the day' and have spent a bit of time exploring the current GUI landscape when I stumbled across your channel. Thank you so much for this video, it presents wxWidgets at a level I can appreciate. So I've already started the 'batch build' on this sdk and looking forward to using it.

12:36 Vulkan, hmm, are we going to see something about Vulkan at some point?

Compiling on (Arch) Linux requires gcc, wxgtk3, and wxgtk-common. run: "g++ cApp.cc cMain.cc -Wall $(wx-config --cxxflags --libs) -o App"

I clicked build right as he said it He says "But before you do and this is very important" Gave me a good laugh. Just learned openCV for object recognition on C++ for my internship and using this video to make my GUI. Thanks!

Fab video as always sir. Don’t know how you manage to hit the sweet spot but I totally dig the level of detail you cover whilst still keeping it accessible.

I always really liked QT as a framework, I'm mainly a C# programmer but I felt quite a home in QT as the bindings are easy and just make sense. Not to mention the documentation is excellent which cannot be said for many C++ frameworks :)

I've been using Qt for cross platform Windows and Linux C++ development for nearly 12 years now (C++ & Qt self tough) but I'm always open to learning about other available technologies. Going to try and develop for macOS next once I get hold of one.

That hit hard when he said build times are extremely long for people who work on massive projects. You, sir, are correct. I work as a full time software developer. We have thousands of lines of code and hundreds of files. Build times are upwards of 40 minutes for some team members!

BIIIIGGGGG THUMBS UP! I've always been on the lookout for a channel exactly like this! KZfaq has blessed me today!

Just in time i needed for my work! ty

Nice tutorial. Glad to see how other frameworks do it since I've only used qt quick

I'm a complete new person in software. Just getting done with a transfers. And THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO. I feel like whenever I ask people "What's next after the backend of my projects are pretty solid?" they give me either a very vague answer or an answer that goes way above my skill level. And this video I feel like I get a good crash course on the next step where I know what to learn on. This might be an older video so maybe this is outdated but for my inexperienced self its a great jumping off point.

I think it is worth to mention "DialogBlocks" here, a GUI Builder for wxWidgets, written by Julian Smart one of the leading wxWidgets developers. It creates vcxproj files that can be opened directly by Visual Studio and as well makefiles for gcc. Even if you do not buy it, and not use it for program generation, it is very useful because it has inbuilt extensive up-to-date information about wxWidgets and help, for example for each control and its parameters you get help about usage and portability.

For anyone wondering why evt returns errors: make sure you used an ampersand (&), not a dollar sign ($) in the declaration =) At least in my case, that was the only problem.

This channel and the Cherno = love.

This is extremely useful, thank you. I i like how you break down what you're doing, and also explain why. I find that too often tutorials, simply inform us which buttons to click without really providing any detail. Thanks again!

Pure gold! I've used a bit of tkinter in python and this felt very familiar. What a great jumping off point for more complex c++ projects!

What an amazing tutorial, exactly what I needed. Many thanks!

A heads up about the next community showcase video, if you want some of your projects featured in a video get them ready! I'll release submission details in due course. Im also looking to fill the onelonecoder.com website with a gallery of submissions.

Great video! Thanks. Perhaps someone already commented that VC15 is Visual Studio 2017. But just in case, here is the list of wx solution files (as of wx version 3.1.4): wx_vc16.sln: Visual Studio 2019 wx_vc15.sln: Visual Studio 2017 wx_vc14.sln: Visual Studio 2015 wx_vc12.sln: Visual Studio 2013 wx_vc11.sln: Visual Studio 2012 wx_vc10.sln: Visual Studio 2010

Great video thank you, I've spent the last 2-3 days looking for a good explanation of the concept, you managed to clear up some confusion!

Not all Heros wear cape! keep this compartment of wisdom!!

"I recently had a look into Java - and that's become a complete mess." LOL

Wow.. you've uploaded this just in time. I'm trying to learn wxwidgets just this month for my little kiddy project.

Thanks for spending the time on this, I found it very useful and will be watching the sequel, also looking to compile this on WSL and Raspberry PI to see how it looks.

Qt and Wx are also one of the best GUI development frameworks for Python as I am originally a Python Developer (not professional but pro) and I am learning C++ for GUI development because I think Python is not for GUI and I learned that C++ is also not for GUI but if I have learned it I will stick to as I am stuck to Python. Long story short: Qt and Wx are also one of the best GUI development frameworks for Python.

Error 111: Out of coffee. Continue with tea bags? (Y/N)

I was writing test tools at an internship using wxwidgets, GTK and QT. That was 13+ years ago... I'm floored that these are still the defacto best choices for a portable GUI in C++.

Im currently relearning everything from before enlistment and really enjoy your videos. Thank you !

This is my forst time in this channel. As soon I heard "I never used a Mac before" I clicled that subscribe button.

A small suggestion for you: Use time stamps for the topics.

"But I am well aware that for just some of us that love C++ too much, that's the language we're going to stick with..." THANK YOU. In 25 year I have been using C++, I cannot remember anyone (besides me) who would speak out like this in defense of one's preferences. I always have to hear people complaining about everything and why any other language (or even scripting language like Python) should be used over C++. Your phrase is spot on.

I use the competing framework in a product called Delphi and C++ Builder called the VCL (Visual component library). It originated from a company called Borland. Eventually Microsoft bought out the guy who designed Delphi from Borland and he invented C#. Finally MS came back to Borland and bought a few more technologies to complete the C# and Visual integration. After 20 years, I still use the VCL which now includes ports to Linux. Borland eventually went under, however the technology division of Borland went around the block a few times and settled in a company called Embarcadero. They still support all the dev frameworks including a visual drag and drop C++ development environment, the VCL framework, and support for PC, mac, phones, and Linux. Embarcadero C++ product is called C++ Builder and any looking for a mature stable, environment for Visual development will be presently surprised. You may say, it may feel like C# development, but it all originated with Borland and the VCL. Remember this is a native code compilation based on CLANG in Windows since 2014.

"and I recently had a look it into Java and that has become a complete mess." -Java left the chat

I expected something different but that's quite good too

I love the way you explain the reasoning behind things. Thank you and I hope you keep making videos.

About the compiling part. On the real project we would divide it into various packages, also call modules. By doing so, we only have to compile a certain package that we have modified; those packages aren't modified, stay right where they are. With this way, thing are much faster then compile everything. This's also applied to Linux because its softwares are managed in package. So when we build an app, it's actually we just build the app core. The other packages can be download through package manager system. That's why it faster then compile everything.

Not going to lie, this was probably the first time I actually made a cup of coffee as per a KZfaqr's request

Please continue the c++ and lua series

Wow! You really take us "by the hands" which is a good thing for me for I have little c++ experience.

a very lovely tutorial. your structure is as it should be- some historical context, some theory, how to use it and a very nice example at the end. i whish some of the practical lessons at university were as good as your tutorials.

Hahaha several of the projects at my work are 1 million+ LoC. Just glad we have beefy computers and build automation

There is no GUI builder that helps even more?

1 -There is a way to tell Java to use native OS widgets instead of similar look-alike widget ( widget also make sense if you want to provide a normalized interface across OSes ) 2 -Another very usefull thing C++ lacks ( without using quirks ) are reflection API which make generating data driven forms in Java MUCH easier and less error prone than in C++ 3 - Unlike with C++ , you WONT HAVE to recompile your user interface for every single target OSes. With java you will pass the same library ( jarfile ) 4- Java has a built-in UI library so you can produce widgets you can share.

Wow, thanks for the great tutorial. Your style of explaining makes it easy to understand things even without any previous knowledge.

I looked at some stack overflow example code for GUI stuff. My eyes burned. I cried. I ran away. 😂

2:20 😂😂😂 3 million years ago

Thanks for the video. My professor told me to code some algorithms in C++, so I started to learn wxWidgets for the GUI. Now I will go read the official book..

I’m loving this series! 👍 Can’t wait for the next video.

"Let's make mines sweper" I see you are a mind reader !

Ok, I'm stopping at 26:40 - I don't get any windows showing up. Everything compiles fine, but nothing actually shows when I run the program... I've googled all I could but I can't find an answer... For Simplicity's sake, everything currently in this project is character for charter the same as @javidx9 's. Does anyone have any ideas why? I'm using Visual Studio 2019, with the latest wx sln being wx_vc16. Is it perhaps a version issue? While I wait for a response, I'll install VS16 to be safe and I'll update this comment based on the results. Update: So there is no VS 2016 (as I thought) so I tried both VS2015 and VS2017 - no luck. The program itself definitely runs, if I launch the .exe directly, while nothing shows up, not even in task manager, I can kill the process using taskkill -> "SUCCESS: The process "" with PID 2536 has been terminated.", so it runs, but won't show anything...

Hi ! I have to admitt that I like very much how you present all these programming subjects. It is on top of my favourite channels !

This might be too complex to grasp for novice programmers but C# is the third of A and if put on the bass register it can also form a diminished chord which could serve as passing to another diatonic one.