I also did some VB classic and Delphi back in the day. I later moved on to C++ with Qt. I've not been working on GUI programming much since, but I really enjoy

I also did some VB classic and Delphi back in the day. I later moved on to C++ with Qt. I've not been working on GUI programming much since, but I really enjoyed the Qt experience; good tools and superior documentation. I never liked gtk - much for the same reasons as your Windows GUI C programming; Too verbose for trivial and mundane things.