WxWidgets
What is wxWidgets ?
wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) provides a single, easy-to-use API/Framework for writing applications (GUI applications supported) on multiple platforms and languages (see below for a partial list of supported platforms and languages).
It allows you to use one single source code on many different operative systems and platforms with very little (if any at all) code modifications, makeing the code and application portability as easy as it can get.
As an overview, it supports advanced features such as clipboard, drag&drop, printing, networking, editting and viewing graphics, multithreading, handling signals and events, system calls, file access, etc...
Even more, wxWidgets grant's the look'n'feel and behaviour of your application will remain exactly the same whatever platform you port it to.
Depending on the platform wxWidgets are running on, the libraries the application is going to be linked to, and the programming or scripting language it is written in, the following wxWidgets supports are available:
- wxUniversal: Supporting natively any platform
- wxBase: Text-only support
- wxMac: For MacOS X/Carbon, MacOS Classic
- wxCocoa: For MacOS X/Cocoa (Under development)
- wxX11: For XLib on Unix
- wxGTK: For GTK+ versions 1 and 2 on Unix
- wxQt: For Qt libraries on Unix (Under development)
- wxMSW: Windows (32 and 64 bits). Windows 16 bits is no longer maintained
- wxOS2: OS/2 support
- wxMGL: Using the multi-platform MGL library
- wxBasic: For Basic language
- wxMotif: For Motif language (No longer maintained)
- wxPerl: For Perl language
- wxPython: For Python language support
- wxTCL: For TCL language support
- wxLua: For Lua language
- wxPalmOS: Port for PalmOS
- wxWinCE: Port for WinCE/Mobile
- wxNano-X: Port for Nano-X
- wxMicroWindows: Port for *Microwindows
- other ports such as wxCurses, wxJavaScript, wxNextStep, wxGEOS, wxBEOS, etc...
To download the latest wxWidgets read this document.
Links in this wiki regarding wxWidgets:
- Manual wxWidgets compilation
- Check if wx is installed twice (since having it installed twice is a common source of compilation problems)
- Using another wxWidgets installation
- How to uninstall wxWidgets
NOTE: aMule is a separate project and is not realated to wxWidgets in any way (apart from using it as it's widgets library).
