Window creation

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C

Standard: ANSI C (AKA C89):

Compiler: GCC 4.0.3

Library: SDL

Compile Command: gcc -lSDL SDL_Window.c -o window

 /*
  *   Opens an 800x600 16bit color window. 
  *   Done here with ANSI C.
  */

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include "SDL/SDL.h"
 
 main(){
 
 SDL_Surface *screen;
 
 if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0) {
   fprintf(stderr, "Unable to initialize SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
   return(1);
 }
 atexit(SDL_Quit);
 screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( 800, 600, 16, SDL_SWSURFACE | SDL_HWPALETTE );
 }

C++

Library: Qt 4

Compiler command: qmake -pro; qmake

#include <QApplication>
#include <QMainWindow>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
 QApplication app(argc, argv);
 QMainWindow window;
 window.show();
 return app.exec();
}

Library: Gtk

Compiler command: g++ filename.cc -o test `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtkmm-2.4`

#include <iostream>
#include <gtkmm.h>

int
main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
 try
 {
  Gtk::Main m( argc, argv ) ;
  Gtk::Window win ;
  m.run( win ) ;
 }
 
 catch( std::exception& exc )
 {
  std::out << exc.what() << std::endl ;
  exit( -1 ) ;
 }
 
 exit( 0 ) ;
}

C#

.Net Version: .Net 1.1 (or higher):

Compiler: Visual Studio .Net 2003

Using: System.Windows.Forms.dll

 using System;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
 
 public class Window
 {
   [STAThread]
   static void Main()
   {
     Form newForm = new Form();
     newForm.Text = "It's a new Window!";
     newForm.Show();
   }
 }

Java

Library: Swing

   import javax.swing.JFrame;
   import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
   
   public class SimpleWindow {
   
   	public static void main(String[] args) {
   
   		JFrame window = new JFrame("This is a title!");
   		
   		window.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   		window.setSize(800, 600);
   		window.setVisible(true);
   	}
   
   }

JavaScript

   window.open("webpage.html", "windowname", "width=800,height=600");

mIRC Scripting Language

Interpreter: mIRC

Switches: C = Center Window p = Picture Window d = Desktop Window

alias CreateMyWindow {
 .window -Cp +d @WindowName 600 480
}

Perl

Interpreter: Perl 5.8.8

Using Tk:

 use Tk;
 
 $mw = MainWindow->new();
 MainLoop;

Python

Interpreter: Python 2.4, 2.5

Library: Tkinter

 import tkinter
 
 w = tkinter.Tk()
 w.mainloop()

Library: wxPython

 from wxPython.wx import *
 
 class MyApp(wxApp):
   def OnInit(self):
     frame = wxFrame(NULL, -1, "Hello from wxPython")
     frame.Show(true)
     self.SetTopWindow(frame)
     return true
 
 app = MyApp(0)
 app.MainLoop()

Library:Pythonwin

 import win32ui
 from pywin.mfc.dialog import Dialog
 
 d = Dialog(win32ui.IDD_SIMPLE_INPUT)
 d.CreateWindow()

Library: PyGTK

 import gtk
 
 window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
 window.show()
 gtk.main()

Ruby

Interpreter: Ruby 1.8.5

Library: Tk

require 'tk'

window = TkRoot::new()
window::mainloop()

Libarary: GTK:

require 'gtk2'

window = Gtk::Window.new.show
Gtk.main

RapidQ

  create form as qform
     center
     width=500
     height=400
  end create
  form.showModal

Visual Basic .NET

Using .Net Framework:

   Dim newForm as new Form
   newForm.Text = "It's a new windows"
  
       newForm.Show()