Welcome to wxWidgets: a portable C++ and Python GUI toolkit

This page lets you access various resources for wxWidgets development. Enjoy!

Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux using your distro's package manager), you will probably have to compile the wxWidgets library before you can start use it.

Please read the platform-specific readme.txt and install.txt for how to do this:

• ReadMe: General ReadMe, wxMSW (wxMSW for WinXP), wxGTK, wxMac, wxCocoa, wxMGL, wxMotif, wxX11, Univ
• Installation: wxMSW, wxGTK, wxMotif, wxX11, wxMac, wxCocoa, wxMGL, wxOS2
• General change log
• Licence: Preamble, Licence, Documentation Licence, L-GPL, GPL

The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of the following formats depends on what you've downloaded from the wxWidgets Web site:

• HTML
• MS HTML Help (CHM)
• wxHTML Help (HTB)
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)

To use the manual in the wxHTML Help format (extension htb), you can use the HelpView application, compiling it from the utils/helpview folder in the wxWidgets distribution.

Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other resources which can help to learn wxWidgets programming:

• The wxWidgets website: contains FAQs, tutorials, info about the mailing lists, and in general everything related to the wxWidgets world is linked here.
• The wxWidgets forum: provides a discussion board about various wxWidgets topics (contains also localized forums)
• The wxWidgets wiki: a user-editable website with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources, etc

Technical notes contains informations useful only to wxWidgets developers for the maintainance of the project:

• Index of technical notes
• Technical notes

TODO list for wxWidgets:

• wxWiki TODO list
• Documentation TODO list

The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some features of wxWidgets (for a list of the 70+ samples please look at the manual):

• bombs: minesweeper-like game.
• forty: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.
• fractal: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.
• life: the game of Life by J. H. Conway, implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.
• poem: a little poetry display program.