25 lines
1.4 KiB
Text
25 lines
1.4 KiB
Text
A GTK+-based implementation of the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI library.
|
|
This package contains the older 2.4 release.
|
|
|
|
wxWidgets is a set of libraries that allows C++ applications to compile and
|
|
run on several different types of computer, with minimal source code changes.
|
|
There is one library per supported GUI (such as Windows, GTK+, Motif, and
|
|
Mac). As well as providing a common API (Application Programming Interface)
|
|
for GUI functionality, it provides functionality for accessing some
|
|
commonly-used operating system facilities, from copying and deleting files
|
|
to socket and thread support. wxWidgets is a 'framework' in the sense that
|
|
it provides a lot of built-in functionality, which the application can use
|
|
or replace as required, thus saving a great deal of coding effort. Basic data
|
|
structures such as strings, arrays, linked lists and hash tables are also
|
|
supported.
|
|
|
|
Such a toolkit is not unique - there are others to choose from - but wxWidgets
|
|
is free, well-established, well-documented, and very broad in its coverage
|
|
of GUI functionality. It has some extras that make it stand out from the
|
|
crowd, such as the many convenience dialogs, built-in HTML display and
|
|
printing, virtual filesystems, easy-to-use OLE automation controller class,
|
|
Open GL support, and many other features that make it easier to write modern
|
|
and user-friendly applications.
|
|
|
|
There is also a python interface available, wxPython (see the py-wxWidgets
|
|
package).
|