I would like to design a GUI without using third party so it can be exactly how i want it to be.
I Haven't had classes on GUI and i can't seem to find anything to learn from.

Do someone has a good website, book or anything on that particular subject?
Targeted language C++ or C#

any decent class on GUIs won't really focus on building stuff without relying on well-known APIs and libraries for whatever respective language it's taught in. additionally, the material of said class shouldn't really be so much on the coding aspect as it is on the coding architecture (MVC, MVP) and on UI design principles.

in the meantime, google is a good place to start. do searches for things like c# ui apis or c# ui development, or something along those lines.

here's a pretty decent one:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754130.aspx

I already know about MVC.
I did try to find stuff on google, seems like i failed. I used GUI and not UI in my searches, that might be the reason.

Thanks for the link

i would give up on the 'from scratch" bit, no reason to reinvent the wheel

can you describe your purpose? or what "exactly how i want it to be" actually is?

if this is a web project, you can create web controls which combine other things and you can add your own functionality, events, etc and use css to make it look however you want it to. you can use your own images too if that suits you.

I Dont want to use the windows forms (C#) or Netbeans for Java.
I want to create customs and if i do achieve some good results i would probably reuse that in a game i plan on making.

if you want it specifically for gaming, you should have said so in the first place. many gaming frameworks have some capability for that separate from normal winforms. i know android does, and i imagine XNA does too. Google around for that.

Gaming is a exemple.
I want to be able to create my own menus, my own buttons, my own grids.
I have many idea i was to do, yet the gaming interface is not always the good one, that's why i want to understand what is going on below those predefined interface.

Since you mentioned java, look at awt and swing's source code since they're open source.

alleg or SDL?

This post was edited by SelfTaught on Dec 30 2012 03:11pm