I have noticed wxwidgets is getting everywhere. Python, freebasic, c++ etc. What is the down-side to using this graphics pkg versus win32? I realize this is not a wxwidget forum but there are a lot of win32 experts here. Same graphic pkg over multi-platforms and languages looks enticing. Do you lose speed or what? I have no set position but by the way it is free.
Link:
WxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/demos.htm)
To me the Demo Aps (http://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/binary/wxWidgets-DialogsDemo-Windows.zip) look interesting.
While, the style looks 100% like those Dialogs we know, maybe the widgets are a easy way to get all those often used dialogs in one place?
Thats one of those things I miss a bit about PB. The ease of making Dialogs modular.
Can wXWidgets easily be used from PB?
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Can wXWidgets easily be used from PB?
Although it has been written using C++ classes, the DLL provides exported functions. Write PB declares for them and try it.
Theo,
wrong link in "Demo Aps": "ftp//" too much.
I seem to remember looking at that one time when I was searching for a GUI toolkit to use for Linux programming, and I found some easy sample Linux programs using wxWidgets, and the Linux exes were huge. At that point I decided it wasn't what I wanted. Linux exes are usually pretty small - even smaller than PB ones.
@Eros, thanks, corrected.
The Forum-Software automatically attaches a http:\\, while the original link was already with ftp.
They say that the thing about it is, that it is cross-platform.
Its not really what I need, I'd actually prefer something new for Windows from Bob :-).