Thanks all for the responses. I take back all the oooi-gui nasty stuff I said.....
My problem was:
Trying to get 'into' C from scratch as a cross-platform language, needing to complie to check progress and unable to get Dev-C to compile a simple prog written with a C++Gui module (damn - I've admitted it...). 'Normal' C code compiling seems to be hacked at an elementary level for me.
I find all the 'traditional' command line stuff like 'makefile' etc a total black hole at the moment, so was looking for a Windows interface (shame on me
) to get going. I'll take a breather for now, thanks, as I have just discovered a new 'beta' called QTCreator which appears to do the whole lot in a oner.