Graphical User Interface Controls

Do you have a goal?

I'd recommend sticking with one language, ideally one your already familiar with, unless you have a compelling reason to switch.

As for the windowing libraries you mention, none of them seem particularly "game" oriented, if that is a concern for you?

13 hours ago, Josheir said:

Oh, and also I noticed the use of CButton, etc. that looks like something I should learn. I noticed it's use in an open source program. What is this and how is it used?

CButton is most likely a class from MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). It’s a C++ wrapper for Win32 and is considered pretty obsolete these days (it uses some strange macro magic to wire up events, etc).

As @rip-off said, your choice of language will depend on your goals/requirements.

C# and Visual Basic aren’t UI libraries, but languages. Both use .Net and potentially Mono, the open source .Net (not sure about VB?). Again, depending on your requirements (do you need cross platform support?) you could use Winforms or WPF on Windows. Both have their pros and con.

15 hours ago, Josheir said:

Is there anything else you would suggest?

Try a Embarcadero C++ Builder with their VCL/FireMonkey libraries. They really best on visual development since 1995 until now.

On ‎6‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 4:51 PM, rip-off said:

Do you have a goal?

I'd recommend sticking with one language, ideally one your already familiar with, unless you have a compelling reason to switch.

As for the windowing libraries you mention, none of them seem particularly "game" oriented, if that is a concern for you? 

Well I see some open source game code that I want to try to change and it includes scroll bar manipulation. It is also something good to know even if it is quickly.

Josheir