Embarrassing Project

[vaironl]

Hello again Everyone,

As few of you know I'm new to SFML and relatively new to c++. With some previous experience in java.
I'm learning c++ through book reading and console applications.

But today while reading I seriously felt like I wanted to add some color to my progress, and I took all advice I was given aside and started to program in SFML. I din't try to go into the complicated stuff or anything like that... rather I tried porting one of my console applications into a GUI application. Sadly I only got to do rectangles,text labels, and images. I feel that for my very first application, following only documentation and no tutorials, I did somewhat well... it's really basic stuff so please don't laugh at me.

Here's a picture of the screen.

[Lo-X]

Is your application purely GUI ?
If yes I think SFML is not the best library for you...

[vaironl]

Is your application purely GUI ?
If yes I think SFML is not the best library for you...

Well.. yes and no.
As I said this application is a console application made so I can learn c++ itself. I'm just trying to make a GUI to add some visual to it (although it's not required).
I want to learn SFML to make games.

[Haikarainen]

Creating a GUI-system is actually a great practice for learning both C++ as well as a simple library like SFML. Create "widgets" in classes like TextInput boxes, Labels, Buttons etc, in a way that makes them reusable.

[vaironl]

Creating a GUI-system is actually a great practice for learning both C++ as well as a simple library like SFML. Create "widgets" in classes like TextInput boxes, Labels, Buttons etc, in a way that makes them reusable.

 ... When I was searching the sfml docs I din't find any textinput options... I guess I din't try hard enough.

[Haikarainen]

Creating a GUI-system is actually a great practice for learning both C++ as well as a simple library like SFML. Create "widgets" in classes like TextInput boxes, Labels, Buttons etc, in a way that makes them reusable.

 ... When I was searching the sfml docs I din't find any textinput options... I guess I din't try hard enough.

You'll have to create them for yourself. Take a look at EventHandling, sf::Event etc. It's all there

[Nexus]

Or use an existing GUI library for SFML, such as SFGUI or TGUI.