Recommendations for a GUI Library?

[XianForce]

Hey guys, I've been wanting to try to make a level editor for some time now, I made a real simple one, but I wanna make one that looks nice and such, so can any of you recommend a GUI Library? I don't care much about cross platform support, I use Windows, though, so it needs to work with windows. Also I'd prefer It be a C/C++ Library, but that's not completely necessary.

Thanks guys =p

[Pickzell]

Why not just make your own? Plus if making a GUI in C/++ is to hard for you then you can make it in a game specific language.

[gordon]

I've heard good things about wxwidgets

[dani93]

I'm trying Qt at the moment. It is pretty easy to creaty a GUI with it.

Example code to create a button:

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// include Qt-files
#include <QApplication>             
#include <QPushButton>
 
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
 
  // pass arguments to Qt
  QApplication app (argc, argv);    
  // create a new button with the text "button text"
  QPushButton *button = new QPushButton ("button text");  
 
  // connect a slot to a signal ("set a callback" in other libraries like GTK+)
  // if the button is clicked, the application quits
  QObject::connect (button, SIGNAL (clicked ()), &app, SLOT(quit ())); 
 
  // show the button
  button -> show ();

  // run the application
  return app.exec ();
 
}

In my opinion it is much easier than GTK+, cause you can use C++-constructors and methods. And if you don't like it, you can use "Qt-Creator" to create GUIs graphically and then use them in your application.
I started learning Qt because I want a GUI (menubar etc.) around a SDL application. But it looks like it only works with OpenGL...

Link:
http://qt.nokia.com/

[XianForce]

Why not just make your own? Plus if making a GUI in C/++ is to hard for you then you can make it in a game specific language.

Erm, it has nothing to do with it being hard... its just a waste of my time.

If there's already a good GUI library, why make my own?

That just distracts from the real goal of making a level editor -.-

[M_D_K]

wxWidgets is very good

Why not just make your own? Plus if making a GUI in C/++ is to hard for you then you can make it in a game specific language.

There really is no point in rolling your own, as avansc would say "work smarter, not harder".

[Netwatcher]

I'd give it to wxWidgets, my personal choice with it would be Python but you can use it with C++ too.

wxWidgets home

Why not just make your own? Plus if making a GUI in C/++ is to hard for you then you can make it in a game specific language.

He's trying to write a level editor not to reinvent the wheel

(EDIT: lol, noticed it's a reference to "Rolling your own"... did I just made a pun?)