This site is intended to help you get the most out of wxWidgets, a product that has been used by companies, academics and government organisations around the world since 1992. Read what it's all about, and what people are saying about it. You can download demos for major platforms. Making a case for wxWidgets in your organisation? Check out our offer to help support your position. You can also download and print out PDF datasheets giving overviews of wxWidgets. You can now buy the wxWidgets book in stores or online.
Please note that the deadline for students to apply for projects under the Google Summer of Code
initiative is 8th May.
Sign up at code.google.com/soc;
the list of project suggestions is at www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_Student_Projects.
May 4th, 2006: We are pleased to announce that wxWidgets is a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code initiative.
If you are a student with some free time this summer, then you can be one of many who will
be selected to work for 4500 USD on open source projects. Find out more about Google
Summer of Code, and sign up, at code.google.com/soc.
The list of project suggestions is at www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_Student_Projects.
Happy coding!
April 2nd, 2006: A new version of lbDMF (0.7.0) with a
great wxWidgets based GUI sample application
has been released. The new version includes improvements such as GUI
state storage to file, a new property editor and layout capabilities
and more. The sample can be used to rapidly develop database applications
without writing a line of code.
March 25th, 2006: The book wxPython in Action is now officially available for sale.
The book is currently only available at Manning's website but will slowly become
available through retail stores over the next few weeks.
Anyone in a hurry can order it at the publisher's website and get a free e-book
with the print edition (the e-book is not sold anywhere else).
March 25th, 2006: wxWidgets 2.6.3 has been released: please see the download page for
details. This is a bug fix release. Notable improvements include Mac universal binary
creation with the command-line tools, Windows Mobile 5.0 support, context menu and
enhanced file selector support on Windows CE, AMD 64-bit compilation on Windows,
better VC++ 2005 support, and more efficient paint handling on wxGTK.
March 19th, 2006: wxWidgets 2.6.3 Release Candidate 2 is available in a tarball and zip file here.
March 18th, 2006: The source for Xara LX, the vector graphics application being ported to wxWidgets, has
been released under the GPL. You can download a pre-built downloadable version of Xara LX 0.3,
and there are now many working drawing tools and features - you can
draw shapes, color them and use the fill, transparency, blend, shape editing and other tools.
March 10th, 2006: The wxWidgets book is now available as a PDF from here,
at the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series page.
March 5th, 2006: BitWise IM Version 1.7.1 is available from www.bitwise.com
for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Showcasing wxWidgets' support for Intel-based Macs,
the Mac OS X version is now a Universal Binary! BitWise is an encrypted cross-platform
instant messenger featuring text messaging, whiteboards, file sharing, voice chat, encryption
and more. Personal and Professional versions are available, the latter providing a completely
private IM network with administrative rights.
February 13th, 2006: wxWidgets 2.6.3 Release Candidate 1 is available in a tarball and zip file here, so we can get feedback before the official
release in a week or so. Please do test it and let us know if you find any serious problems.
January 19th, 2006: wxWidgets is having a Bug Day, a concerted effort to fix bugs and
clean up the trackers, to reduce the tally of 945 open bugs.
It will take place Saturday 21st January
between 9:00AM EST (14:00 GMT) and 9:00PM EST (02:00 GMT), but also
beyond that if there is interest. For more information, see here.
Please join in if you can!
January 10th, 2006: Kirix Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of wxAUI 0.9.1 for download. wxAUI is an Advanced User Interface library
that aims to implement "cutting-edge" interface usability and design features so developers can quickly and easily create beautiful
and usable application interfaces. The centerpiece of the library is a docking manager which allows windows to be floated/docked onto
a frame. Please click here for more information.
January 5th, 2006: Koan Software is happy to announce the new license release of
wxIndustrialControls. wxIndustrialControls, also known as KWIC cross platform library,
provides a set of graphical widgets for showing digital and analogic values.
Starting from January 2006 the source code becomes freely available under KWIC license (a modified LGPL).
The project is available here.
Contributors and developers are welcome, as are patches and improvements.
December 23rd, 2005:
wxVisualSetup for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
has been released. wxVisualSetup by Lit Window Productions integrates the wxWidgets library into Microsofts Visual Studio IDE.
The project wizard creates ANSI or Unicode projects with static or DLL wxWidgets libraries. A script for the "Inno Setup" package creates installer for your program.
wxVisualSetup also makes the wxWidgets documentation available in the Visual Studio Online Help.
wxVisualStudio 2005 works with all versions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, including the Express versions.
It is also available for Visual Studio 2002 and 2003. Please click here for more information.
December 20th, 2005: Chandler 0.6 has been released.
Chandler is a personal information management from the Open Source Applications Foundation, using wxPython.
November 21st, 2005: Dataton have won the Projection Product of the Year award at
the entertainment technology trade show, ETS-LDI, with a wxWidgets-based application.
Dataton WATCHOUT is multi-display production and presentation system, managing
graphics, images, video, audio on a wide variety of display devices. A screenshot is available here.
November 20th, 2005: Robert Roebling has updated his information on the
port of wxWidgets to GPE, a PDA environment based on GTK+. Read and
see more here.
October 13th, 2005: Xara X has announced that they
are making their Xara X
vector and bitmap package open source. They are using wxWidgets to maintain Windows,
Linux and MacOS X versions.
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