Linked by Andrew Youll on Mon 8th Aug 2005 06:04 UTC, submitted by anonymous
This chapter introduces the idea of the device context, generalizing the concept of a drawing surface such as a window or a printed page. It will discuss the available device context classes and the set of "drawing tools" that wxWidgets provides for hand.
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Something like Qt Designer that allows you to quickly knock up a GUI, instead of fidgeting with source code, layout managers, and the like. wxGlade works to a certain extent, but it is quite unstable on OS X and isn't too intuitive.
I have not used Qt Designer from Qt4, but Qt3.3+'s version of Qt Designer was a pile of junk.
You had to derive a class from the generated class just to make your code work.
All those springs and other UI spacing things just don't work. You had to break layout and mess up your design just to add/move something.
Maybe Qt4 has a better designer, but I am never using that thing again.
Trolltech will get it right in Qt5 is what I am guessing.
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This is something I've been waiting for, for a very long time now!
wxWidgets has made C++ programming as simple as it always should have been. I love writing Windows apps from my Gentoo workstation...
Now, what we need is a killer IDE and there would be much wider, more rapid adoption of wxWidgets...for sure!