Introduction

Downloading wxWidgets

Extracting the Source Code

Creating an Environment Variable

Building wxWidgets From Source

MUST MATCH VS VERSION! (wx_vc16 = VS 2019)

Build wxWidgets From Source

Creating a wxWidgets Project

Success!

Intro

CMake

Basic wxWidgets program

Sizers

Splitters

Creating a Subclass

Subclassing the wxApp class

OnInit Method

Subclassing the wxFrame class

Creating a Window ID

Creating the Window

Creating a Window Instance

Running the Application

Conclusion

Downloading wxWidgets

Extracting the files

Adding a version folder

Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio

Additional include directories

Running a simple example

Adding Dynamic Link Libraries to the PATH environment variable

Code Walkthrough

WxWidgets Frame class

Conclusion

Intro

wxGridSizer

wxFlexGridSizer

wxGridBagSizer

Embedding Box Sizers inside Grid Sizers

Intro

Standard Menu Items

Custom Menu

Keyboard Shortcuts

RawCtrl for Mac

Hotkeys with an Ampersand

CheckItems, RadioItems, Separators, and Submenus

Problems with Icons on Linux

Menu Events

Context Menus with a Drawing App

Intro

Linux GUI options

Events

Running the batch build

Setting up the compiler

Window placement

Demonstration

Resizing the grid

Generating the minefield

Conclusion

wxWidgets with Dev-C

What is wxWidgets?

Real world apps built with wxWidgets

What is Dev-C++ (Embarcadero Sponsored)

How to Install Dev-C

How to Instrall TDM-GCC (compiler for Dev-C++)

How to Install wxWidgets for Dev-C

Configuration of wxWidgets for Dev-C

How to create wxWidgets app in Dev-C

Linking headers and library via Project Options

Sample Windows App using wxWidgets

Create and Build Windows app using wxWidgets

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Introduction

Basic Dialogs

Validators for the Text Entry Dialog

The Demo App

Basic Demo UI

The File Dialog

The Color Picker

The Font Chooser

Custom Dialogs

Live updates with our custom dialog

The Progress Dialog

Download wxWidgets source code

Download G++ Compiler

Configure cmake

Introduction

Configuration explained & Windows demo

Linux Demo

Mac Demo

Introduction

Event Loop implementation

Simple button click handler using Event Table

IDs explained

Multiple handlers, consuming and skipping events

Events propagation trough controls hierarchy

Non propagated events not deriving from wxCommandEvent

Dynamic event handling, Bind, and lambdas

Multitasking in the OS

Your first multithreaded application

std::thread vs wxThread

Baseline app

Using detached std::thread instead of wxYield

UI updates with CallAfter

Atomic variables

Multithreading is hard: a subtle crash

Thread.join() vs thread.detach()

An exercise for you

Creating a MenuBar

Adding a Menu to the MenuBar

MenuBar Accelerators

Adding an Icon to a Menu Item

Adding an Icon

MenuBar Separators

Submenus

Conclusion

Lines Following the Mouse Path

Log Messages

Log Functions

Log Levels

Logs for the Mouse Leaf and Mouse Enter

The Log Level per Component

Intro

Basic Code

Event Loop

wxYield

Progreess Bar

Time Overhead

UI Impact

OnClose Crash

Idle Events

I/O Operations

Creating a Toolbar

Adding a Tool to the ToolBar

Creating a Tool for a Custom Menu Item

Creating the Icon

OnQuit Event Handler

Creating a Help Tool

Handling Menu Events

Separators and Stretchable Spaces

Adding Help Text

Conclusion