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  • Informit has an article on wxWidgets: Programming C++ GUIs with the wxWidgets Library, by Jeff Cogswell, September 2006.

  • Otto Wyss has written an article about wxWidgets for NewsForge, here.

  • Developing with open source tools talks about GPlates, an open source application written using wxWidgets and OpenGL that allows geophysics students and academics to simulate interactively and experiment with the motion of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface.

  • wxWidgets is referenced in Janos Vegh's paper, The "carbon contamination" rule set implemented in an embedded expert system, published in the Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena (Elsevier), September 2003.

  • wxWidgets gets a good write-up in GUI Toolkits for The X Window System by Leslie Polzer, on Freshmeat.

  • The July 2003 issue of Linux Journal has an article by Taran Rampersad describing the benefits and uses of wxWidgets.

    PC Plus Value Award

  • wxWidgets has been positively reviewed in the popular UK computer magazine PC Plus for July 2003 (edition 204). "It's a well-respected C++ toolkit... a huge number of sample applications are provided." wxWidgets gains a PC Plus Value Award.

  • Interview with Julian Smart for the FOSDEM 2003 conference.

  • The wxWidgets Library at a Glance, by Taran Rampersad, on CramSession, June 2002.

  • wxHTML for beginners: building basic browser functionality with wxPython. IBM developerWorks article by Nicholas Bastin.

  • Porting MFC applications to Linux: A step-by-step guide to using wxWidgets, by Markus Neifer, April 2002. A nice primer for MFC developers migrating to wxWidgets, on the IBM developerWorks site.

  • Case Study: Clusters and Image Processing at LinuxPlanet describes the port to Linux of a very large application. "ImageLinks now uses the Open Source version of wxWidgets for all its current GUI development. Doing this ensures that everything interfaces cleanly and also makes it easier in the long run to add other GUIs along the way because ImageLinks has access to all the source code."

  • There's a CodingStyle interview with several of the wxWidgets developers on Steve Frampton's site.

  • wxWidgets, an Intuitive Cross-Platform GUI Framework, by Carlos Moreno, appears in the May 2001 edition of C++ Users' Journal.

  • The wxWidgets cross-platform framework, by Vadim Zeitlin, appears in the May 2001 edition of Dr Dobb's Journal.

  • wxPython for newbies by Michael Roberts, in IBM DeveloperWorks Linux library, March 2001.

  • Looking through wxWidgets: An introduction to the portable C++ and Python GUI toolkit by Markus Neifer, in IBM DeveloperWorks Linux library, February 2001.

  • wxWidgets: mature but little known, an article in Sun World's Unix Insider, December 2000. There are a few inaccuracies, such as the purported existence of venture capital funding.

  • An article for MediaDev, "Quand le rêve devient réalité: wxWidgets", by Frédéric Mazué, November 2000

  • Vaclav Slavik has written an article about wxWidgets for a Czech ezine, August 2000 edition.

  • Dr Dobbs Journal, August 2000, carries a piece on wxWidgets by Shannon Cochran.

  • Linux - Guide to Programming and Development (Linux - Wegweiser zur Programmierung & Entwicklung), P. 283:

    "wxWidgets is the most complete implementation of a C++ class library available for Linux".

  • C Magazine (Japan), August 1998, on an accompanying CD together with Gnu-Win32

  • Linux-Magazin (Germany), July 1998 about wxGTK (no, there isn't a commercial version of wxWidgets despite the implication):

    "Even strict C++ users can now use the free GTK toolkit ... The Linux community can now make use of this open class library in addition to the commercial version of wxWidgets. ... It remains to be seen, if there is soon going to be a wrapper for the Qt toolit."

  • iX (Germany), August 1997, 8 pages. By Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunter.

  • Unix Review November 1995, Vol 13, No 12, ppg. 87-90, incl. "A Free, Portable GUI Toolkit" from Programming Column: "Cross Thoughts", by Kevin Reichard and Eric F. Johnson,

    • "...wxWidgets presents a high-level API that translates into the widgets used on Motif, XView, and Windows...wxWidgets does not emulate behavior; it simply calls the relevant Motif, XView, or Windows API..."

    • "...Developed at the Artifical Intelligence Applications Institute of the University of Edinburgh, wxWidgets also includes... DDE... for both Windows and Unix, as well as... MDI..."

    • "...wxWidgets supports the concepts of constraints to place widgets within a panel. This is a tricky concept that lacks adequate documentation. Luckily, wxWidgets comes with an extensive set of example programs."

    • "...All in all, wxWidgets is very workable, but you end up with huge executable programs, even larger than for Motif of XView alone (neither of which is known for making small executables). Even so, it's amazing to see XView, Motif and Windows abstracted to the same functions and data items in a free toolkit..."

    • "...We used a beta version 1.62 and found it robust..."

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