I am learning how to program in this language but the only things I have found are some very poor tutorials about Open GL and DirectX. I don't want to use either (for reasons of platform compatability) and want to know the basics of programming with graphics in C++. Who can help?

you need a library to do graphics. as c++ doesn;t come with it by default.

I suggest libsdl (www.libsdl.org).

it's quite simple to do graphics that way.
You just get a virtual screen on which you can write data.

I've meddled around with doing it the 'old' way ages ago, by switching screen modes... screen 13 or 16, I believe it was. It's risky and hard as hell. I once forgot to go back from that different screen mode and when exiting my program, the comp crapped up. Didn't even have any graphics in it yet, cause I don't know how to turn bitmaps into code :whistle:

Thanks Data. I see that it can be used even with WindowsCE which is just what I want.

Some things that may help...

Irrlicht engine
A very fast 3D engine that also can be used to make GUI's very easy to use, also has support for images, models, quake maps, sound \ music and a number of other things including some physics engines.

GTKMM
A C++ interface for the GTK+ library used to make GUI's.

DevPaks.org
A number of good librarys ;)

Open Scene Graph
A very very nice looking 3D game \ graphics engine :P

Hope this helps :D

That does all look great but unfortunatly WAY above my level of expertise. Thanks anyway and maybe someone else will have some use for this.

If you want to do more, you can use OpenGL instead. It's aviable for a lot of platforms, too.

He said that even these were above his expertise.

Yes, but what i meant is he said "(for reasons of platform compatability)" and i meant that opengl is aviable for a lot of different platforms.

Yes, i know what he said, don't hit me :tomato:

;-)

So does SDL.