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jkr

Hm, which code are you talking about?

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ohh, I forgot the code

#include "ccc_win.cpp"

using namespace std;

int main()
{

      // Define constants.

      const double XMIN = 0.0; // Minimum x coordinate value (cm).
      const double XMAX = 15.0; // Maximum x coordinate value (cm).
      const double YMIN = 0.0; // Minimum y coordinate value (cm).
      const double YMAX = 15.0; // Maximum y coordinate value (cm).
      const double OFFSET = 1.5; // Offset for "Area =" phrase (cm).

      // Set coordinate system.

      cwin.coord(XMIN, YMAX, XMAX, YMIN);

      // Get corners from user.

      Point pul = cwin.get_mouse("Click on upper left corner");
      cwin << pul;
      Point plr = cwin.get_mouse("Click on lower right corner");
      cwin << plr;

      // Complete rectangle.

Point pll(pul.get_x(), plr.get_y()); // Lower left corner.
Point pur(plr.get_x(), pul.get_y()); // Upper right corner.
      cwin << pur << pll; // Display points.
      Line left(pll, pul);
      Line top(pul, pur);
      Line right(pur, plr);
      Line bottom(plr, pll);
      cwin << left << top << right << bottom; // Draw lines.

      // Calculate and output area.

      double area = (pul.get_y() - pll.get_y()) * (plr.get_x() - pll.get_x());
double xm = (pll.get_x() + plr.get_x()) / 2.0;
      double ym = (pll.get_y() + pul.get_y()) / 2.0;
      Point center(xm, ym);
      Point left_of_center(xm - OFFSET, ym);
      cwin << Message(center, area) << Message(left_of_center, "Area =");

      // Everything worked.

      return 0;
}

jkr

GNU is good, but if you are on a windows platform, MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) might suit you better.

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thanks guys, I really don't care either it's free or not I just need the compiler which will be 100% fully functional with no limitations :). It's just makes me to feel more secure and cozy, well I guess I'm a little more demandive for the beginner, but like I said I have to feel completely equiped for start.. :):)

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hey... isn't that from ugly friend Microsoft? I think I found really good deal on that check this out
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000089GKU/103-8318846-3135008

used version is for $600.00, but is that complete edition, I mean 100% complete?

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Axter, I was very curious about your question history and I just viewed one https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21102718/Transparent-window-or-Circular-window.html seems like you still did not get the answer you expected I suppose...
here is what you might be exactly looking for, www.frozendev.com It has some semi-heavy Javascript, but I don't think there's anything that "C++ guy" might not guess... :)

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Sorry, forgot to post the link: http://www.parinya.ca/

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is it better then this? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000089GKU/103-8318846-3135008

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thanks Axter, one more question. Is C++ code same for every platform? what I mean this is, let's say I wrote some program on windows, compliled it and I'm happy, it works, then I took exactly the same code and compiled it on any other platform, would that still be 100% functional? would it still work?

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can you please go back and answer my last post here?
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21138240/Want-to-Learn-C.html

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fattumsdad, why you were unhappy?
> I was unhappy with Dev-C++ and Eclipse

I tried Dev-C++ about a month ago, and switched to MinGW. A lot of the code I wrote that worked on VC++ 6.0 would NOT work with Dev-C++ but would work with MinGW and vice versa. In my opinion, MinGW is the closest you can get to VC++. If you can afford VC++, then by all means that's the way to go (as stated above).

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well, which one is this?

> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000089GKU/103-8318846-3135008