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-wxWindows Documentation
+wxWidgets Documentation
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+Welcome to wxWidgets, the première cross-platform GUI C++ framework.
-Welcome to wxWindows 2, the premiere cross-platform GUI C++ framework. This is an index of
-the plain text and HTML documentation. Documentation is also available in Acrobat (PDF) and Windows Help,
-from the wxWindows Web site.
+This is an index of
+the plain text, HTML, Windows Help and Acrobat documentation: availability depends on what you've
+downloaded from the wxWidgets Web site.
[Install]
[Manuals]
-[3rd party tools]
+[Technical Notes]
[Samples]
+[Demos]
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+Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets using RPMs,
+you will probably have to compile the wxWidgets library first.
+Please read the platform-specific readme.txt and install.txt
+for how to do this.
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- ReadMe: General ReadMe,
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wxGTK,
+wxMac,
+wxCocoa,
+wxMGL,
wxMotif,
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- Installation: wxGTK,
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+Univ
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- Installation:
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wxMotif,
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- Change log
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- Buglist
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+wxMac,
+wxCocoa,
+wxMGL,
+wxOS2
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- General change log
- Licence: Preamble,
Licence,
Documentation Licence,
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- FAQ:
- ToDo: General ToDo,
wxGTK,
wxMotif,
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- List of preprocessor symbols used in wxWindows
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+Further platform-specific notes:
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+To use manuals in wxHTML Help form (extension htb), you can use the HelpView
+application, either compiling it from utils/helpview in the distribution,
+or downloading a binary, for example from here.
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+Each of the following samples demonstrates one or more aspect of wxWidgets.
-- bombs: minesweeper-like game.
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- access: Active Accessiblity sample (Windows only).
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- animate: shows the wxAnimationCtrl class.
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- artprov: shows how you can customize the look of standard
+wxWidgets dialogs by replacing default bitmaps/icons with your own versions.
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- aui: wxAui (docking subsystem) sample.
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- calendar: a sample to test the wxCalendarCtrl class.
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- caret: a sample to test the wxCaret class.
- checklst: demonstrates wxCheckListBox on
supported platforms (currently Windows and GTK only).
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- collpane: shows the wxCollapsiblePane class.
- config: demonstrates use of wxConfig, which
-defaults to wxRegConfig on WIN32, wxIniConfig on WIN16, and wxFileConfig on other platforms.
+defaults to wxRegConfig on WIN32 (optionally wxIniConfig), and wxFileConfig on other platforms.
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- console: demonstrates a console application using
+console-mode (no-GUI) compilation of wxWidgets.
- controls: sample showing a variety of controls, including
wxNotebook.
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- db: wxDB ODBC sample.
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- dde: shows the DDE protocol in action, both using real
-DDE on Windows, and TCP/IP on all platforms. Edit ddesetup.h
-to switch between compilation modes. Currently the TCP/IP mode needs a bit of work.
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- db: wxODBC sample.
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- debugrpt: wxDebugReport sample.
- dialogs: shows some of the common dialogs available -- wxFontDialog,
wxColourDialog, wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog, wxMessageBox, wxTextEntryDialog, wxSingleChoiceDialog.
For printing-related dialogs, see the printing sample.
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- dialup: wxDialUpManager demo.
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- display: wxDisplay demo.
- dnd: demonstrates drag and drop on supported platforms.
- docview: demonstrates use of the document view classes,
using wxFrame.
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- docvwmdi: : demonstrates use of the document view classes,
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- docvwmdi: demonstrates use of the document view classes,
using wxMDIParentFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
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- dragimag: wxDragImage demo.
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- drawing: tests device context drawing.
- dynamic: shows how to connect events to member functions
dynamically.
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- forty: a great little card game by Chris Breeze. A
-fully-fledged application!
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- fractal: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.
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- erase: shows the wxEditableListBox class.
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- erase: Window erasing sample.
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- event: demonstrates event handling.
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- exept: demonstrates exception handling.
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- exec: demonstrates wxExecute.
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- font: tests fonts, font enumerator, font encodings.
- grid: demonstrates the wxGrid class.
- help: shows how to use wxHelpController.
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- html: a number of demos for the wxHTML class library, used inside
+applications and also as a help facility.
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+ - about: shows use of a wxHTML widget inside an About box.
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- help: shows use of wxHtmlHelpController to display wxHTML help.
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- helpview: a stand-alone wxHTML help viewer for any .htb book.
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- printing: shows how easy it is to preview and print HTML files.
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- test: general wxHTML test application.
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- virtual: demonstrates the virtual file system feature.
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- widget: demonstrates the use of controls in HTML pages.
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- zip: shows how help files can be packaged in zip archives.
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+ - htlbox: demonstrates wxHtmlListBox.
- image: shows off the cross-platform wxImage class.
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- internat: use of wxWindows' internationalization support.
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- ipc: shows the DDE-like protocol in action, both using real
+DDE on Windows, and TCP/IP on all platforms. Edit ddesetup.h
+to switch between compilation modes.
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- internat: use of wxWidgets' internationalization support.
- joytest: tests the wxJoystick class (currently Windows and GTK only).
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- keyboard: tests keyboard support.
- layout: shows the constraint layout system in action.
- listctrl: demonstrates the wxListCtrl (implemented natively on
WIN32, and using a generic version on other platforms).
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- menu: tests menus.
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- mediaplayer: demonstrates wxMediaCtrl, for playing movies and audio files in a window.
- mdi: shows off the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) classes. On Windows, the regular MDI
scheme is used whereby child windows have full sizing and moving rights within the main
window. On other platforms, tabbed windows are used, where the children are always maximized.
- memcheck: demonstrates the memory checking/debugging facilities.
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- mfc: shows how to use MFC and wxWindows code in the same application (Windows only).
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- mfc: shows how to use MFC and wxWidgets code in the same application (Windows only).
+To compile this, you must edit include/wx/wxprec.h, comment out the windows.h inclusion, and recompile wxWidgets.
- minifram: demonstrates a frame with a small title bar. On
platforms that don't support it, a normal-sized title bar is displayed.
- minimal: just shows a frame, a menubar, and a statusbar. About as
-small a wxWindows application as you can get.
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- nativdlg: shows how wxWindows can load a standard Windows
-dialog resource, translating the controls into wxWindows controls (Windows only).
+small a wxWidgets application as you can get.
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- mobile: mini applications for embedded platforms.
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- multimon: demo showing how to use multiple monitors.
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- nativdlg: shows how wxWidgets can load a standard Windows
+dialog resource, translating the controls into wxWidgets controls (Windows only).
- notebook: shows the wxNotebook (tabbed window) control.
- oleauto: a little OLE automation controller (Windows only; requires
Excel to be present).
- ownerdrw: demonstrates owner-draw menus and controls (Windows only).
- png: demonstrates PNG loading.
- printing: shows printing and previewing.
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- proplist: demonstrates the property list classes (a VB-style property editor).
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- propsize: demonstrates proportional sizer classes.
- regtest: tests the low-level Windows registry functions (Windows only).
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- resource: shows how to use wxWindows resources (.wxr files).
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- render: shows how to use wxRenderer to implement controls consistent with the
+platform's native look.
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- richtext: demonstrates wxRichTextCtrl.
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- rotate: demonstrates interpolated and non-interpolated
+rotation of a wxImage.
- sashtest: demonstrates use of the wxSashWindow class to allow
the user to resize subwindows.
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- scroll: demonstrates wxScrolledWindow.
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- scrollsub: demonstrates the use of wxScrolledWindow to scroll
+an embedded window.
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- shaped: demonstrates non-rectangular windows using wxFrame::SetShape.
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- sockets: demonstrates the TCP/IP family of classes.
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- sound: demonstrates use of wxSound.
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- splash: demonstrates use of the wxSplashScreen class.
- splitter: demonstrates the wxSplitterWindow class.
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- tab: demonstrates the generic tab window class. You should
-normally use wxNotebook instead, but the generic code is sometimes useful, for example for
-implementing wxNotebook on platforms with no native support.
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- statbar: demonstrates the wxStatusBar class.
- taskbar: demonstrates the wxTaskBarIcon class, for
adding icons to the system tray. Windows only, but may eventually be implemented for other desktop
environments that use this metaphor.
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- text: demonstrates single and multiline text controls,
+and clipboard operations.
- thread: tests the family of classes for doing thread
programming.
- toolbar: demonstrates wxToolBar.
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- typetest: tests various data type classes, including
wxTime, wxDate and wxVariant.
- validate: shows simple use of validation.
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- wxpoem: a little poetry display program.
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- wxsocket: demonstrates the TCP/IP family of classes.
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- vscroll: shows use of wxVScrolledWindow.
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- widgets: shows a lot of control classes.
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- wizard: demonstrates the wxWizard class.
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- xrc: demonstrates the XRC resource system.
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+The following are fully-fledged applications.
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+- bombs: minesweeper-like game.
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- dbbrowse: ODBC database browser application.
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- forty: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.
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- fractal: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.
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- life: the game of Life by J. H. Conway, implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.
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- poem: a little poetry display program.
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