What is wxwidgets

Many companies are dependent on wxWidgets and the cross-platform advantage it gives them. When you download wxWidgets, you get a 3, page reference manual and around 80 samples and demos. The dialog editor on the accompanying CD will help you get to grips with sizers, a flexible layout mechanism. The wxPython wiki provides an excellent guide for getting started , but if you still need additional help, take a look at the wxPython in Action book or the newer wxPython 2.

Check out the wxPython website to download the wxPython libraries, along with the docs and demos package. The docs and demos package contains an application showing the use of nearly every class available in wxWidgets, and the demos are dynamically editable so that you can make changes and see the effects in real- time.

This is an excellent way to learn how the toolkit works. You can find free community support from fellow developers on the forums and mailing lists. Flexible event system. All the usual and quite a few of more rare GUI controls.

And also all the standard dialogs. Integration with the native platform HTML rendering engine. Dockable windows framework. Word processor-like widget. Powerful text editing widget with syntax highlighting. Chat, where you will find all of the same helpful and experienced wxWidgets users. Please notice that while 3. In the nine months since the previous release, there have been more than commits from 70 unique contributors 40 with multiple contributions , so it is impossible to summarize all the changes in this document without making it too long, please see the fuller changelog for more but still not all details, but some of the most important changes are:.

Notice that in spite of all the changes, this release remains almost completely compatible with 3. Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release and we hope that you will enjoy working with it! The developers are keen to fix bugs as soon as possible, though obviously there are no guarantees. There is also also an active user forum where wxWidgets users can get their questions answered and issues helped with by other wxWidgets users. Many organisations - commercial, government, and academic - across the world.

See the screenshots page for a list of some users and their applications. For example, Windows metafiles have their own classes on Windows, but nowhere else. Also, some classes that started off as platform-specific, such as the MDI classes, have been emulated on other platforms. Forbidding some platform-specific classes would be an incorrect approach that would alienate many potential users. However wxWidgets does strive to provide seamless interoperability with standard containers and other classes.

For example, a std::string or std::wstring can be used anywhere where wxString is expected and a wxString can, in turn, be easily converted to an object of the standard string class using its ToStdString and ToStdWstring methods. We are using git to develop and maintain wxWidgets. This allows us to make alterations and publish them where others can update their source. You can download wxWidgets from our downloads page.