What do you mean by "run the results"? Run the compiled code? Most modern IDE can run the compiled code by clicking on a button -- and then you can get the output in a window if you like. Or if you need a window based application (GUI as opposed to TUI/CLI), then you also need to learn a bit of the windowing frameworks, such as MFC or Windows Forms or VxWorks or GTK or Cocoa -- depends on your taste, licensing policy, your base platform and whenever you need to cross-compile your code to other platforms, and of course available tools. Generally speaking basic stuff such as displaying a string in a text box or handling an event like a button pressed is relatively easy in all frameworks. However, each works differently so you cannot easily swap in between. Tamas On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Charles Rogers wrote= : > Could any one reccomend a C compiler that doesn't resort > to the Command prompt to run what ever you write. I'm > writing simple C programs and editors are easy to find but > compilers all seem to use the Command Prompt to run the > results. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help ! ! ! > > CR > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .