Programming Guides

Table of Contents

• Starting with wxWidgets
• Conceptual Overviews
• Non-GUI Classes
• Drawing Related Classes
• GUI Classes
• Individual Controls
• Other wxWidgets Programming Overviews

The guides here cover all high level details of a full range of development topics related to building applications with wxWidgets.

Starting with wxWidgets

• Installing wxWidgets
• Hello World Example
• A Quick Guide to Writing Applications
• Notes on Using this Reference Manual

Conceptual Overviews

• wxApp Overview
• Events and Event Handling
• Window Sizing Overview
• Window IDs
• Logging Overview
• Unicode Support in wxWidgets
• Internationalization

Non-GUI Classes

• wxString Overview
• Buffer Classes
• Date and Time
• Container Classes
• File Classes and Functions
• Stream Classes Overview
• Multithreading Overview
• wxConfig Overview
• Persistent Objects Overview
• wxFileSystem Overview
• Regular Expressions
• Archive Formats
• Interprocess Communication

Drawing Related Classes

• Device Contexts
• Bitmaps and Icons
• wxFont Overview
• Font Encodings
• Printing Framework Overview
• Printing Under Unix (GTK+)

GUI Classes

• Sizers Overview
• XML Based Resource System (XRC)
• XRC File Format
• Scrolled Windows
• wxDialog Overview
• wxValidator Overview
• wxDataObject Overview
• Drag and Drop Overview

Individual Controls

• wxHTML Overview
• wxRichTextCtrl Overview
• wxAUI Overview
• wxPropertyGrid Overview
• Common Dialogs
• Toolbar Overview
• wxGrid Overview
• wxTreeCtrl Overview
• wxListCtrl Overview
• wxSplitterWindow Overview
• wxBookCtrl Overview
• wxTipProvider Overview
• Document/View Framework

Other wxWidgets Programming Overviews

• Backwards Compatibility
• C++ Exceptions
• Runtime Type Information (RTTI)
• Caveats When Not Using C++ RTTI
• Reference Counting
• wxMBConv Overview
• Writing Non-English Applications
• Debugging
• Window Styles
• Window Deletion
• Environment Variables
• Creating a Custom Widget
• High DPI Support in wxWidgets