Who uses wxWidgets? |
To help you decide whether wxWidgets is for you, here are some categories of wxWidgets user and application examples. See also an alphabetical list of some of our users, applications, and the excellent feedback we are receiving.
wxWidgets enables you to hedge your bets, and cover the major platforms without having to commit to them.
As wxWidgets is truly open source, you have the assurance that your code is built on a foundation that can never go away, for example due to the vendor going bankrupt or being taken over, or the product being withdrawn. There are no royalty payments and the licence is commerce-friendly.
The wxWidgets community gives you a lot of support for free, and you can buy extra support from developers with years of wxWidgets experience.
Below, we illustrate the use of wxWidgets in a sample of industry sectors.
Many government organisations are considering a move to Linux from Windows. wxWidgets is great for helping achieve the transition: applications can be compiled for either platform, whilst maintaining only one set of sources. Users find that wxWidgets is particular easy to migrate to from MFC; and wxWidgets can be used with ODBC and other database systems.
Here are a few examples of the use of wxWidgets in the public sector and education.
The Open Source Applications Foundation, founded by well-knowing industry figures including Mitch Kapor and Andy Hertzfeld, uses wxPython for its Chandler PIM project.
The database administration applications pgAdmin III and SQLiteCC have been written with wxWidgets.