FLTK Video Tutorials

I've made some video tutorials that show how to program with FLTK.
These videos have sound, so turn up your speakers if they're off.
These videos assume you have some knowledge of C++.

You may also be interested in my FLTK cheat page for simple FLTK
example programs, useful to both new and experienced FLTK users.

These first two videos are specifically for modern Visual Studio versions, circa 2017 and up.

Building FLTK With Visual Studio 2017 + CMake 7 Minutes Running Time, Date: May 29, 2020	How To Get Started Building FLTK With Visual Studio 2017 This video is an off-the-cuff demonstration of how to download and build FLTK using Visual Studio 2017, to help people having trouble. I don't myself use Visual Studio very much, and it shows, lol. Still, I didn't see anyone else making such a video, so I made one.. hope it helps some folks. Concepts covered: How to download and extract FLTK 1.4.x from fltk.org. How to use 'cmake' to create the Visual Studio project files. How to open and build the FLTK library and test programs Running a sample test program
Building a New FLTK Application with Visual Studio 2017 ~29 Minutes Running Time, Date: May 29, 2020	Building a New FLTK Application with Visual Studio 2017 This video is an off-the-cuff demonstration of how to create a new FLTK application in the Visual Studio 2017 IDE, to help people having trouble. I don't use Visual Studio very much, and it shows from all the swearing at the end, lol. Still, since I haven't seen anyone else making such a video, I made one.. hope it helps some folks. Concepts covered: How to create a simple FLTK program in VS 2017 that just opens an empty window How to setup the FLTK include directory in the IDE properties How to setup the FLTK libraries in the IDE How to build and run the test program Make small changes to the test program and rebuild/run - Fade to black - Followup! How to use a Makefile to do the above using just the command line

What follows are older videos made back in 2004 showing how to build FLTK in the older version of Visual Studio 7 .NET. In 2004, Flash was the only reliable video format for the web, and screen recording software was very new. At that time I used "Camtasia" from TechSmith.

Why didn't I use YouTube? YouTube didn't exist when these videos were made. But since Flash is now obsolete, I did convert these flash videos into YouTube videos; see the links below.

Building FLTK With Visual Studio 7.5Megs ~7 Minutes Running Time, Date: Mar 2004	How To Get Started Building FLTK With Visual Studio 7.0 Concepts covered: How to download and build FLTK using Visual Studio. How to make a new FLTK project of your own. To download this video for local playback, right-click on this link to save. There is also a youtube version of this video.
FLTK: Hello World 7.5Megs ~10 Minutes Running Time, Date: July 2003	A Beginners Guide To Programming In FLTK Concepts covered: How to write and compile "Hello World". Example Makefile Widgets: Fl_Window, Fl_Button. Making button callbacks, passing user data. Trapping 'window quit' callback. Deriving a class from Fl_Window. To download this video for local playback, right-click on this link to save. There is also a youtube version of this video.
Fluid: Introduction ~8.5Megs 16 Minutes Running Time, Date: Feb 2004	An Introduction To Using Fluid Fluid is FLTK's interactive widget layout and programming tool; a very terse but effective IDE. Concepts covered: How to make a simple program. Making button callbacks, passing user data. Save/Build/Run cycle with one keystroke. Trapping 'window quit' callback. The widget property editor. Making two widgets interact. To download this video for local playback, right-click on this link to save. There is also a youtube version of this video.