graphics - need advice

[mors123456]

Hi!

I want to program a primitive graphical application mostly for fun.
Let say with C or C++ (does not really matter).

What is the simplest way to do it? I'll appreciate a good advice here!

So far I have heard about OpenGL and GLUT tools - is it the best?

How many choices we have?
What do you actually use by yourself and can recommend?


Thanks. Roman.

[fiomba]

Hi.
it's matter of taste... there are lot of solutions.
I prefer gnuplot interfaced to Python.
Plenty of documentation on line (also for c & c++).

[mors123456]

Thank you, fiomba. I will try this...

[Surak]

SDL is by far the quickest and easiest way to do anything, although it is oriented towards games, it should work fine.

[mors123456]

Never heard about SDL. Will try it for sure. Thanks
What do you think about Java?

Merry Christmas to all!

[fiomba]

Hi mors123456,
Happy New Year!
For scientific plotting, I keep on saying that the best solution is gnuplot.
About Java, it can do also graphs, but strictly speaking is an object oriented language,
better than C++ (IMHO), but I'll never use it, because I hate OOP...