Subject: Re: [wx-users] How to learn using wx-windows <BR>
Reply-To: wx-users@wxwindows.org<P>
-> Reading the Linux Journal article on wxpython, and having used wxclips<BR>
-> I got interested in wxwindows as a development interface. However, the<BR>
-> programming experience I got is old, and from a former generation (For-<BR>
-> tran). I'd like to refresh my experience and start in C++. Will<BR>
-> wx-windows be a very high step to take?<P>
+> Reading the Linux Journal article on wxpython, and having used wxclips<BR>
+> I got interested in wxwindows as a development interface. However, the<BR>
+> programming experience I got is old, and from a former generation (For-<BR>
+> tran). I'd like to refresh my experience and start in C++. Will<BR>
+> wx-windows be a very high step to take?<P>
I'm new to wxWindows myself, but I'd like to answer this question
anyway. In the past two years I've learned two similar frameworks
Besides the C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustrup, the
"official" guide to C++, I highly recommend Inside the C++ Object Model,
-by Stanley B. Lippman. (Lipmann was one of the C++ honchos at Bell
+by Stanley B. Lippman. (Lippman was one of the C++ honchos at Bell
Labs.) This book will tell you what _not_ to do, as well as why
everything in C++ is as it is. If you are confused by anything in C++,
Lippman's book is the cure.<P>
Learn as much as you can about the String class; after using a good
String class you'll never want to use C's string functions again.
-wxWindows contains other nifty utilty classes as well.<P>
+wxWindows contains other nifty utility classes as well.<P>
The application class, wxApp, contains the main event loop. Learn about
event handling and event tables (reading sample code will help). Almost