C++ for Beginners: 2/2

هذا هو الجزء الثاني من C++ for Beginners و هدفه الأساسي التعريف ببعض الـ IDEs المستخدمة لإنشاء برامج C++ ذات واجهة رسومية GUI. لقد استخدمت اثنين بشكل أساسي و هما

Visual Studio

Qt

بالإضافة لمن رشّحوا استخدام NetBeans و Eclipse  و لكن لم أستخدمهم بعد. لذلك سأكتفي بالمقارنة بين ما استخدمته.

Platform:

Visual Studio : Works only on Windows

Qt: Works on Windows, Linux, Mac, Symbian … You just recompile your project on that platform to make a copy for it.

But if you only develop on Windows, this piece of info is not important.

GUI Design:

I liked the GUI in Qt much more than Visual Studio, because it has many useful elements, a variety of 3^rd party classes, and a very very  important feature called ‘Layout’. It means that if you change the size of program window, the design will still fit inside it.

Debugging:

The debugging in Visual Studio is easier when debugging very big programs. But for normal programs, both Visual Studio and Qt are fine.

IntelliSense  (auto complete):

Both are fine, but Visual Studio has a more fancy one.

Event Handling:

Qt uses something called ‘Signals and Slots’ which makes event handling a lot easier than Visual Studio.

Documentation and Help:

Visual Studio is very popular, so there are a lot of forums that can help you. There are also lots of forums for Qt but not as much as Visual Studio.

For documentation, I found the documentation of Qt  more helpful than the MSDN of Visual Studio

بالنسبة لي فأنا أفضّل Qt أكثر من Visual Studio... و لكن يمكنكم أن تختبروهما و أي IDE آخر  تختارونه. ففي النهاية كل شخص يختار بناء على خبرات أو نقاط ذات اهتمام أكثر من الأخرى.

Websites to help:

Qt

Visual Studio

Eclipse

NetBeans

Qt Free Reference:

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, 1st Edition