Cheat Engine

Chase Payne

After you learn C++, (which all the tutorials I have found that explain it very well are under console app)

Is there a way you can just "plug" in the language of iostream (the main one everyone seems to use in a tutorial) and have an interface on it?

I have checked tons of GUI in C++ but they all contain an entire new language I don't understand, making it very difficult for me.

Is there a point of learning this "Console" C++? It seems every other way to include an interface like menu and etc is a completely different style and language.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

I always thought this was a pretty good introduction to the Win32 stuff. It's a a bit outdated and in C, but the ideas should carry over.

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
You really only need a basic grasp of the language to jump into it, but there's plenty of new concepts to wrap your head around. Ideally, you should get a book.

Judging by your recent posts though, you need to get more comfortable with the language first or you are going to be in for quite the (confusing) ride.

Deltron Z · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:18 am Post subject:

Making a window-based application is complicated and takes a lot of time, console is the most basic application, only input and output with no spaciel graphics, and this is why it is a good idea to work with a console when learning. once you're done, you can easily convert your code to a windowed application.

isair · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:50 am Post subject:

C++ is not an OS specific language. Judging from what you've said so far you've only learned using standard libraries. My suggestion to you is that if you don't wanna bother with win API because you hate it, you can use several cross-platform libraries that are available to you. I suggest that you take a look at SDL and other libraries written using SDL like SDL_net, SDL_mix etc. etc. Those can make your life easier and also make your code cross-compilable.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject:

Chase Payne · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject:

It seems C# is more user friendly with GUI???
(Also seems exactly the same as c++)
Confirm/deny?

Up2Admin · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject:

Flyte · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

If you're going to make a GUI, you might as well use C#. Hell, almost anything in user mode is better off done in C#.

C++ is getting slowly phased out anyways, the only reason it's still kicking is all the legacy code*. Learn C, and C#, and you will be set for pretty much everything.

* The exception is the game industry, and real-time systems in user mode (high performance servers). A few milliseconds for garbage collection is "A Bad Thing™", and will probably make the application meet the same fate as Michael Jackson (oh, too soon?).

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

Chase Payne · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject:

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject:

Yes, C# is quite refreshing to work with in that regard.