Why not 
Thanks AWOL 
Had a quick look at Processing, and I thought it seemed aim towards more animation type of things, not just boring static windows that don't do anything. But I will look into it a bit more.
Seems that a Java based IDE would be best (just from the fact that I haven't seen any nicely packaged C++ based IDEs)
From Wikipedia;
The language builds on the graphical capabilities of the Java programming language, simplifying features and creating a few new ones
Just looked into Netbeans a bit more and it has a GUI builder (which sound like a drag and drop type interface) Which may make my life a whole lot easier. Although I would like to still learn how to do it from the ground up aswell.