[Tfug] wxWidgets

[Jeremy D Rogers]

I started playing with wx a few years ago and that project stalled.
The docs are sparse (or were a few years ago), but the examples for
wxpython are awesome. I think the nicest cross-platform out there in
wx is bitpim. If you are on Debian, aptitude install wx2.8-examples
and run the example app. It shows a lot of the features and might
help. However, since I kind of stalled on it, I probably can't answer
how it suits your needs. I also don't have any experience with others
to compare to, but I had looked at alternatives, and it seemed like
choices were limited. I remember something with Fox in the name and qt
which has a mucked up license for windows, but that was about it.
JDR



On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm looking into GUI toolkits for another "quick and dirty"
> project and wonder what your experiences with wxWidgets have
> been like?
>
> Note, I'm not looking for "pretty", bells and whistles, etc.
> I want something with a small footprint (ideally), good
> "visual" tools (so I don't have to manually "count pixels"
> to place widgets on the screen, etc.), reasonably portable
> *and* not a pain in the ass to code around.
>
> E.g., I can use Motif as it satisfies all of the above
> (except the "small footprint"  :< ) but it requires a
> fair bit of hand-holding to tie all the code together.
>
> By contrast, doing things in limbo-tk was almost as
> easy as writing code in "BASIC"!  (and, with a SUPER
> tiny footprint).
>
> I'm particularly concerned as the wxWidgets documentation appears
> very amateurish.  And, wonder how well their "visual" tools
> *really* work.
>
> Also, does the library allow you to build "panels" that are smart
> enough to know how to resize themselves?  E.g., can I build a
> dialog and configure it so that if it is "maximized" then
> I want certain geometric layout relationships to be preserved.
> So, for example, the buttons remain equally spaced along the
> bottom edge while a listbox located above them maybe grows
> wider even though the set of radio buttons to it's right stays
> in a fixed geometric relationship...
>
> (sorry, I should probably send some pix to illustrate)
>
> Thx,
> --don
>
>
>
>
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