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Aug 20th, 2007, 10:30 AM
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to be honest i feel the process of learning wxWidgets is a little overwhelming!
thats probably because ive never programmed GUI s**t... all ive ever done is console stuff, thats not a good practice! i must get into the GUI stuff!  |
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Aug 20th, 2007, 10:44 AM
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Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets by Julian Smart and Kevin Hock (ISBN 0-13-147381-6) is a very good resource for learning wxWidgets.
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Aug 20th, 2007, 11:13 AM
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Yes, I plan on buying the book very soon. All the books I have been buying lately are going to put me in the poor house. lol Right now I am looking at the tutorials on the wxWidgets wiki.
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Aug 20th, 2007, 11:19 AM
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If you know anything about using C++ objects, I think you'll find wxWidgets much less daunting than the raw Win32 API.
Further, if MS is successful in moving usage to .NET environments, the old API is going to see less use and less support.
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Aug 20th, 2007, 11:28 AM
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Yea, I have heard that the Win32 API is a bit hard to work with, plus wxWidgets is cross platform. No use in learning an api for windows and linux.
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Aug 21st, 2007, 2:55 AM
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I did a little Win API a while ago, and I gave up because I found the process to be horrible!
Still, thanks for the book reccomendation! I will try have a look! |
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Aug 21st, 2007, 3:26 AM
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hey i remember when i was looking at the demo apps included with wxWidgets, i noticed alot of the apps had trouble with updating their components...
for example, if i resized a window the GUI got messed up, stuff was overlapping... just wondered if that is just the demos being badly written, or has any experienced similar troubles in their own applications? thanks! |
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Aug 21st, 2007, 12:05 PM
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No trouble here, must be user error.
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Aug 22nd, 2007, 2:57 AM
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Ok, well thats good to know!
Thanks!  |
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