wxWidgets Documentation

Book | Reference | Presentations | Tutorials | Courses | Sample code

The wxWidgets Book

Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets by Julian Smart and Kevin Hock with Stefan Csomor is available now. For more information, please visit the book page.

Datasheets

You can download PDF datasheets to help you and your colleagues find out about wxWidgets.

Reference

The archived manuals are available from the Download page in HTML, wxWidgets HTML Help, MS HTML Help, Windows Help, and PDF formats. You can view wxWidgets HTML Help files using HelpView, whose source can be found in utils/helpview/src in the wxWidgets distribution.

Tutorials

Julian at FOSDEM 2003

Presentations

View Kevin Hock's LinuxWorld 2005 presentation:

View Julian Smart's presentations from FOSDEM 2003 (OpenOffice Impress format).

You can see photos of Julian giving his talk, plus pictures of John "Maddog" Hall and Richard Stallman, here.

Sample code

One of the best ways of learning wxWidgets is looking at sample code. There are the samples and demos directories in the distribution, and the following provides further useful code to look at.

Plucker Desktop by Robert O'Connor is a wxWidgets 2 application making use of advanced features such as Xml resources, wxArtProvider, context-sensitive help, wxHTML Help, internationalisation, wizards, and wxStyledTextCtrl. The source is provided, formatted nicely with good commenting.