X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bcfd974ef26faf6f91a62cac09827e09463fd1..e498079eb4bc94514b45b5b36fbdc7f8352c6c68:/docs/tech/tn0008.htm diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0008.htm b/docs/tech/tn0008.htm index dcbc731c92..3f267dba0f 100644 --- a/docs/tech/tn0008.htm +++ b/docs/tech/tn0008.htm @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ To: wx-users@wxwindows.org
Subject: Re: [wx-users] How to learn using wx-windows
Reply-To: wx-users@wxwindows.org

-> Reading the Linux Journal article on wxpython, and having used wxclips
-> I got interested in wxwindows as a development interface. However, the
-> programming experience I got is old, and from a former generation (For-
-> tran). I'd like to refresh my experience and start in C++. Will
-> wx-windows be a very high step to take?

+> Reading the Linux Journal article on wxpython, and having used wxclips
+> I got interested in wxwindows as a development interface. However, the
+> programming experience I got is old, and from a former generation (For-
+> tran). I'd like to refresh my experience and start in C++. Will
+> wx-windows be a very high step to take?

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 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ iceberg.

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.

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ and then calling methods using those objects.

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.

+wxWindows contains other nifty utility classes as well.

The application class, wxApp, contains the main event loop. Learn about event handling and event tables (reading sample code will help). Almost