wxWidgets

Company Overview

wxWidgets: Cross-Platform GUI Library.

Company Information

Platforms

Pricing

Open Source

Features & Specs

Cross-Platform

wxWidgets allows developers to create applications that run on different platforms such as Windows, macOS, Linux, and more, without changing the codebase.

Native Look and Feel

It provides a native look and feel on each platform by using the native GUI components, making applications appear more integrated with the host OS.

Wide Range of Widgets

wxWidgets offers a rich set of widgets and controls, supporting complex interfaces and various types of user interactions.

Extensive Documentation

The library is well-documented, with numerous tutorials, guides, and an active community to help developers troubleshoot and expand their understanding.

Open Source

Being open source, wxWidgets provides the flexibility to customize and modify the library to better fit specific needs without licensing costs.

Videos

External Sources including reviews & comparisons

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Social Recommendations

Understanding the Layout Process in Qt Widgets

Why do your prefer it over https://wxwidgets.org given the licenses? Personally, I was keen on Qt right up to the 5.x change over. =3.

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17 days ago
Building KiCad 6.0.11 from source – wxWidgets problem

I decided to compile from scratch the latest wxWidgets from wxwidgets.org. And I compiled and installed successfully for both X11 and GTK.

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about 1 year ago
Tic tac toe ine c++ ?

Some say qt, others wxwidgets, u++, sfml, here is a video from quick search on wxwidgets and c++ for beginners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOIbK4bJKS8 Choosethem depending on learning curve and where they will take you, you might learn something harder because it takes you farther to where you want to go.

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almost 2 years ago
The Decline and Fall of Java on the Desktop Part 1 (1999-2005)

> Java Swing still lets you make native-looking-and-feeling apps (with some care). I don’t know of any new GUI frameworks that let you do the same. That’s the whole raison d’être of the (C++) wxWidgets toolkit. [0] It fully commits to using native GUI widgets, rather than impersonating them. (That is, it wraps various other toolkits.) As others have pointed out, the other major cross-platform toolkits (Qt, GTK)…

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over 2 years ago
Why is Audacity not up to date in Arch repo?

That all being said: We are now all waiting on wxwidgets to release their next stable version so that we can upgrade. It makes no sense to use an unstable version of that upstream, as in its development releases it literally breaks on every patch level release.
It also makes no sense to start packaging a custom version of wxgtk just for audacity (the overhead required is just not worth it).

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over 2 years ago
Ask HN: Is there any cross platform non native GUI written in C that looks good?

Looking good is very subjective of course… did you take a look at wxWidgets? https://wxwidgets.org/.

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almost 3 years ago
Is it possible to have a Rust framework that compiles to a native GUI

It’s possible. That’s what wxWidgets does in C++ …but, as others have said, it’s a lot of work to make a GUI toolkit, abstraction or not.

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over 3 years ago

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