Introduction to wxWidgets GUI programming with wxSmith Introduction wxWidgets is a framework for cross-platform GUI development in C. Started by Julian Smart at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute of Edinburgh University in 1992, the framework was ported to many platforms since then. This article is intended to guide a beginer programer to install the needed resources and develope a single aplication with wxWidgets using Code::Blocks as the IDE for that. What is wxWidgets wxWidgets is a set of C libraries conforming a framework for multi-platform GUI developing. It gives an easy-to-use API very similar to the MFC API.
Introduction to wxWidgets GUI programming with wxSmith Introduction. WxWidgets is a framework for cross-platform GUI development in C++. Started by Julian Smart. Wxwidgets Serial Port Programming Linux Games More recently basic support for Coldfire and Kinetis with the Codesourcery Tool chain. The software is written using C language and communicates with the Serial Port using Win32 API. In Windows,Serial ports are named as COM1, COM2,COM3. COM1 and COM2 usually refer to the hardware serial ports present in the PC while COM numbers in double digits like COM32, COM54,COM24. Etc are given to USB to Serial Converters or PCI serial port extenders.
Linking it with the appropiate library and compiles makes your applications look appropiate to the target platform. WxWidgets is a very complete framework with solutions for almost every thing you need but keeping the simplicity in the usage.
Why wxWidgets There are a number of options available for cross platform GUI development. Maybe one of the most popular is Java, but it's not an efficient alternative for some aplications. In C there is QT, a great framework, but as some disadvantages that have to be mentioned in first place its emulate the platform look, while wxWidgets uses the platform libraries for create the graphic interface; and in second place QT have a diferent approach using propietary layers between the code you write and the final C code that is compiled. Don´t mentiones about Microsoft Visual based frameworks that only works for windows, or some ones like mono.net that addas layers over layers. In opposite of that examples wxWidgets is C, so have this efficiency and doesn't adds any extra layer to your code. And it's a set of libraries so you can compile it with the C compiler you want, well, not every C compiler but the most common ones.
Other advantages and characteristics:. It's still developed and have a lot of support and colavorative of the open source community. Its totaly free fir personal and comercial use. Have a lot of documentation online. Ease of learning. It's just C. A lot of ready-to-use clases and libraries are available.
Getting Started. As an Electronic Engineer I've worked with many languages and for some diferents plattforms including desktop and embedded systems. My natural envirovment is C/C, but I've worked with Java, C# and hardware oriented languages (VHDL, Verilog). I really like programing and always I'm looking for some ideas to development. I add to the opensource philosophy do I try to share my knowledge with other people. Now I am developing embedded systems for nuclear industries in the Argentina most important technology Company.
Yasriady 21-Aug-14 6:48 21-Aug-14 6:48 wxWidgets is really good and almost excellent cross platform framework. The license term is very flexible and give us chance to develop either open source or proprietary software as well. Aside the static and dynamic linking of the library is very cool.
So far we configure wxWidgets with Eclipse as IDE, and choose MSVC Express as compiler. Compiling wxWidgets application with MSVC resulting very much smaller application rather than compiled with MinGW, thus static linking is possible for most application. While MinGW static linking resulting bloat application. CMIIW./ Ddy. Bconline2002 13-Aug-14 2:41 13-Aug-14 2:41 I use the wxWidgets3.0.1 and codeblock 13.12 mingw build(gcc verison 4.7.1) then I setup everything follow the article and compiled the wxWidgets OK.
But when I created a widgets project in codeblock and press run,get this result: Build: Debug in wxDebug (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler) e: mingw include w32api.h 27 warning: #warning WARNING - The w32api.h header file is deprecated and will be removed.Wcpp e: mingw include w32api.h 27 warning: #warning WARNING - The w32api.h header file is deprecated and will be removed.Wcpp ld.exe cannot find -lwxmsw30u Build failed: 1 error(s), 2 warning(s) ( 0 minute(s), 5 second(s)) any help? Yordankyosev 6-Aug-14 11:28 6-Aug-14 11:28 Thank you for the introduction.
It would be good to include some even short review or list of the links of available tools for wxWidgets and to use the actual versions for the current Windows (not more XP.). After some years work with wxSmith from Code::Blocks I switched to wxCrafter. WxCrafter is not open source, but it generate clear code and works stable for very complex forms, contrary to wxSmith.
Before somebody starts to work with wxWidgets, I would recommend to check the tools from here and then to decide which one to use. But do NOT connect your satisfaction from the GUI tools to this from the wxWidgets, wxWidgets is realy good platform. Thank you for the comment. All the examples screenshots was taking by me running C::B on windows 7. The selection on wxWidgets 2.8.12 was based on the recomendations of C::B and on some personal and coworker's experience. About the tools, I decided to choose one tool for developing and present that because my idea is to make an easy-to-start tutorial.
Then, with some experience anyone can choose easier wich tool is better for him. But I'm completely agree with your last sentence, wxWidgets is a great platform independently of the GUI tool you choose. Thank you for share yoour experience and contribute with the article. WxWidgets is really good and almost excellent cross platform framework. The license term is very flexible and give us chance to develop either open source or proprietary software as well.
Aside the static and dynamic linking of the library is very cool. So far we configure wxWidgets with Eclipse as IDE, and choose MSVC Express as compiler. Compiling wxWidgets application with MSVC resulting very much smaller application rather than compiled with MinGW, thus static linking is possible for most application. While MinGW static linking resulting bloat application.
CMIIW./ Ddy. I am using wxWidgets 2.8.12 over windows 7 and have no problems. Anyway I'm looking for a solution for the problems. Please reply if you can fix the problem by installing the 3.0 version of wxWidgets.
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