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How to design GUIs on Linux and C++ [closed]

I am new to Linux. I would like to be able to program on Linux too besides Windows and Arduino. I am running Linux mint 14 Cinnamon (Nadia) version.

I would like to make applications with a user interface. And if that would require me to use a different version then that’s okay: then I would reinstall Mint KDE or XFce, that’s no problem.

I’ve been looking at several programming tools to write C++ on Linux So far none of them (CodeBlocks Geany and I even tried Vim) had something, to create a user interface and put your code behind it.

What I miss from Visual Studio is to be able to make a form, put buttons on it, put a text input field, and a image field etc and be able to do something with that. Maybe this is not the way it works Linux, maybe it a split something. Maybe there coding software, is split from GUI designing software.

So how do Linux developers normally do this?

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A large number of developers and studios use Qt for Linux and Windows development. I highly recommend it as it provides you with an IDE called “QtCreator” and a designer, called “Designer” for laying out your forms and widgets.

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