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Best book for creating GUI using Visual C++ (VS 2003)

Hi all,

First of all sorry for the cross post. I was not sure which ng would be
most appropriate.

I need a book that gives guidelines on good GUI design (preferably,
comes with a few template GUIs one can extend). There seems to be so
many books out there, I would be very grateful to hear from any
experienced GUI designer out there - who can recommend a book for
designing GUIs.

A bit of background of my self. I am a C/C++ developer, but have some
basic GUI design experience using VBs Form Designer. I have a little
experience of MFC but I'm hoping to generate a lot of the boiler plate
stuff using MFCWizard.

I look forward to any suggestions.

MTIA

PS: Any suggestions of libraries that I can use to enhance the GUI (e.g.
XP look and feel, chart controls etc) will be evry welcome.

Nov 17 '05 #1
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many thanks all, for your very useful and informative feedback.
Lots of food for thought!. Once again, many thanks!

Paul Tremblay wrote:
Hi all,

First of all sorry for the cross post. I was not sure which ng would be
most appropriate.

I need a book that gives guidelines on good GUI design (preferably,
comes with a few template GUIs one can extend). There seems to be so
many books out there, I would be very grateful to hear from any
experienced GUI designer out there - who can recommend a book for
designing GUIs.

A bit of background of my self. I am a C/C++ developer, but have some
basic GUI design experience using VBs Form Designer. I have a little
experience of MFC but I'm hoping to generate a lot of the boiler plate
stuff using MFCWizard.

I look forward to any suggestions.

MTIA

PS: Any suggestions of libraries that I can use to enhance the GUI (e.g.
XP look and feel, chart controls etc) will be evry welcome.


Nov 17 '05 #2

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