For external links to articles about wxWidgets, please see Reviews and Articles.
wxWidgets 2
Introduction to wxWidgets
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What it is, what it is not, and a little history.
Why choose wxWidgets 2?
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A bit of shameless promotion.
How to learn wxWidgets programming
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A personal view of how to learn a GUI framework, by Edward Ream.
'Hello world' in wxWidgets: a very short tutorial
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A tiny tutorial with code, by Robert Roebling.
What Do These Sizer Things Do?
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One of the most intimidating parts of wxWidgets is figuring out how sizers work.
They are quite powerful, but sometimes unintuitive. This is intended as a guide to aid
in understanding what all those parameters do. By Brian Victor.
Using Eclipse and MinGW with wxWidgets on W2K
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How to install and configure Eclipse, MinGW, and wxWidgets to create portable C++ GUI applications in Windows 2000,
by Cameron Donaldson.
Using the Chinook IDE with wxWidgets on Windows
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An article by Klaus-Dieter Landwehr.
Using Dev-C++ with wxWidgets
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How to use the Dev-C++ IDE with wxWidgets.
Building accessible wxWidgets apps
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An article contributed by AOL describing how to build accessible wxWidgets
applications.
wxWidgets mnemonic FAQ
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An article contributed by AOL describing mnemonics (for
executing commands via the keyboard).
Intellisense and wxWidgets
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How to get MS Visual Studio Intellisense working with wxWidgets.
wxWidgets and Linux
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Musings about the relationship between wxWidgets and Linux.
Supported classes by port
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A table showing what classes are supported for each port.
wxWidgets 2 classes
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A somewhat out of date list of classes in wxWidgets 2, but handy
to give an impression of the coverage of the framework.
wxWidgets 2 FAQs
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A small selection of Frequently Asked Questions. With answers.
wxWidgets coding standards
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Coding standards to bear in mind when making contributions, but also
useful for your own applications to help with consistency, readability
and portability.
How to submit patches
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A description of how to submit patches via SourceForge.
Using CVS
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How to use the wxWidgets CVS archive.
User-defined events in wxWidgets
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A tutorial on creating user-defined events. This applies to wxWidgets 2.2.x, and
to the development snapshots in compatibility mode. However this needs updating to reflect the new
macros used for defining events.
Writing dialog-based applications with wxWidgets
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How to write an application with a minimal user interface, by Marco Ghislanzoni.
Plotting with wxWidgets
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How to use Plplot with wxWidgets, by Frank Huebner.
Distributing Windows applications
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Some issues with distributing Windows applications.
Writing on-line help
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Options available when writing online help for wxWidgets applications.
See also the next technical note.
Adding wxWidgets class documentation
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This note is aimed at people wishing to add documentation for a
class to either the main wxWidgets manual, or to their own
manual, and describes the use of Tex2RTF.
Cross-compiling Windows applications on Linux
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Phil Blecker has contributed these notes for creating a cross-compiler that is
capable of producing DOS/Windows binaries from a Linux host.
Using OpenGL with wxWidgets
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Using OpenGL or Mesa and wxWidgets, using the wxGLCanvas class bundled with
wxWidgets.
Writing installers for your application
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Some ways to distribute your wxWidgets application in a friendly way.
Using the VC++ IDE to compile wxWidgets applications
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Those tricky project settings explained. See also the Contributions page
for wizards that create project files for you.
How to use Windows .rc resource files to store wxWidgets .wxr files
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Using wxLoadUserResource to load WXR files from an application's resources.
wxWidgets and Active Accessibility
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The current status of accessibility support in wxWidgets.
Using wxStyledTextControl
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An article about using wxStyledTextControl, by Milan Babuskov.
wxWidgets 1
Getting started with wxWidgets
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Getting started with wxWidgets 1, and choosing a port.
How to make wxText and wxListBox widgets more Windows-like under Motif
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App defaults tips.
How to create bitmaps from data
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Bitmap issues on X and WIN32.
Using X resources to change window colours and fonts
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More X resource tips.
Comparison of wxWidgets and XVT
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Comparison by Leif Jensen.
The use of the const keyword in wxWidgets
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An issue that is not relevant to wxWidgets 2 now that const is used whenever possible.
Obsolete
A note on using .wxr resources in Borland C++
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WXR high jinks, by Dominic Gallagher.
Internationalization FAQ from comp.windows.x
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Some of these issues may help in understanding how wxWidgets internationalisation works.