i've been learning c++ for about 3 months
i've created lots of very simple console based apps
now i want to start creating apps with gui
but i don't know which framework/library to choose:
MFC, ATL, WTL, .NET, Qt, FLTK, GTK+, wxWidgets ???

does anybody know any pros and/or cons of any of them?

at least i would like to know what framework/libary is used
for popular software like photoshop, dreamweaver, etc

thanks in advance

I have heard a lot of good things about cross platform wxwidgets. And I am currently trying to learn it. I like the fact that it will work on Linux, Unix, Mac, and Windows.

If you search there is one book on it.

This is a matter of personal preferance and what you wish to do. Obviously if your going for the windows platform you are going to work with Windows Frameworks/Libraries (MFC, .NET, etc)

The Linux platform you will lean more to GTK+.

Furthermore, how high of a level do you want to work on? C++ is more a low level language then, say, C#. In so far as the Adobe products are concerned, if I had to guess, I would say they were created using VC++ but that is strictly a guess.

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I'd steer clear of MFC, .NET et al as they're proprietary software and wedded to Windows (both bad things IMO).

I'd have a quick look at some code written using the various libraries you're considering and pick your favourite -- to be honest they all do pretty much the same things. You can find code with http://www.google.com/codesearch.

Cheers

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