Which wxWindows GUI builder for rookies ?

Preservation of modified code with GUI builders for wxWindows ? (was: Which wxWindows GUI builder for rookies ? )

Dec 08, 2003

Dec 10, 2003

Hello ! Which wxWindows GUI builder for rookies ? I just know the commercial/affordable GUI builders http://www.roebling.de/ http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/ but did not find any free gui builder. Any reasons for / against any of them ? Any other project with a free gui builder available ? I just do my very first academic C++ project, with QT/Win Academic ( choice of the professor), but I would like to keep this little project ( a simple soccer manager game result list ) so portable, that the gui parts are separated from the independant part, so that alternative user interfaces with "any MSWindows-only" Gui Framework ( MFC, Windows Forms,..) and especially wxWindows and mandatory QT/Win support are very easy to add. So I a litte experience with Java GUI designers ( JBuilder, Forte/Netbeans, both AWT and Swing) from a Java project with GUI, but no with C++. Sincerely Rolf -- / / / Alone on the data highway... / / like on an allee in Hannover-Herrenhausen / / / The Hemmerling (R) WEB site - Rolf Hemmerling,Germany / / / http://www.hemmerling.com/

>Any reasons for / against any of them ? I just tried wxGlade, and it crashes all the time (Illegal Operation). And if you try to load a project after a crash, it loads, but doesn't let you edit or add to the main frame. VisualWX only supports the MinGW compiler under Windows. XRCed is a GUI for wxPython, and looks very complicated. And, myself, I don't have time to learn Python, gotta get a project done. Same with PythonCard. Same thing with Boa. Looks like I'm stuck with having become a wxWindows expert in a hurry. Cheers!

Hello ! Thanks alot for the comments about wxGlade VisualWX , is the quality of the commercial GUI builders much better ? http://www.roebling.de/ http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/ Any other free candidate with C++ support known ? I am not interested in Python. Further comments on the GUI builders ? Does any of the GUI tools support "preservation" of modified code when re-using the builder, or has any clever strategy to avoid problems ? For example, the QT Designer has a clever strategy to support code modifications ( by the "ui" include file), and Forte/Netbeans ( for Java )supports "gray" code areas which cannot be modified, Borland JBuilder ( for Java ) accepts modification of code too, while it was said about GUI building with MS Visual studio "don´t touch modified code with the builder again". Sincerely Rolf -- / / / Alone on the data highway... / / like on an allee in Hannover-Herrenhausen / / / The Hemmerling (R) WEB site - Rolf Hemmerling,Germany / / / http://www.hemmerling.com/

Interesting about the code modification, I have wxDesigner and it works ok ( none of the preservation stuff ) , but honestly Julian Smarts 'blocks' looks better. He's also the creator so theirs that end of it, however wxDesigner supports several languages so... C "Rolf Hemmerling" <hemmerling@gmx.net> wrote in message news:br2oes$2nqp$1@digitaldaemon.com... > Hello ! > > Thanks alot for the comments about > wxGlade > VisualWX > , is the quality of the commercial GUI builders much better ? > > http://www.roebling.de/ http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/ > > Any other free candidate with C++ support known ? I am not interested in Python. > > Further comments on the GUI builders ? > > Does any of the GUI tools support "preservation" of modified code when re-using the builder, or has any clever strategy to avoid problems ? > > For example, the QT Designer has a clever strategy to support code > modifications ( by the "ui" include file), and Forte/Netbeans ( for Java > )supports "gray" code areas which cannot be modified, Borland JBuilder ( > for Java ) accepts modification of code too, > while it was said about GUI building with MS Visual studio "don´t touch > modified code with the builder again". > > Sincerely > Rolf > > -- > / / / Alone on the data highway... > / / like on an allee in Hannover-Herrenhausen > / / / The Hemmerling (R) WEB site - Rolf Hemmerling,Germany > / / / http://www.hemmerling.com/ > >

wxhatch (v1, rc2) will do genertaion of makefiles (wxWindows 2.4 only) menus and code editor. This works on Win (dmc, other win compilers) and Linux solaris with gnu tools, The CVS version is starting to do dialogs, and makefiles for wxWindows 2.5 and wxWindows CVS head It is free and under open source - please send me bug reports chris Rolf Hemmerling wrote: > Hello ! > > Which wxWindows GUI builder for rookies ? > > I just know the commercial/affordable GUI builders > > http://www.roebling.de/ > http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/ > > but did not find any free gui builder. > > Any reasons for / against any of them ? > > Any other project with a free gui builder available ? > > I just do my very first academic C++ project, with QT/Win Academic ( choice of the professor), but I would like to keep this little project ( a simple soccer manager game result list ) so portable, that the gui parts are separated from the independant part, > > so that alternative user interfaces with "any MSWindows-only" Gui Framework ( MFC, Windows Forms,..) and especially wxWindows and mandatory QT/Win support are very easy to add. > > So I a litte experience with Java GUI designers ( JBuilder, Forte/Netbeans, both AWT and Swing) from a Java project with GUI, but no with C++. > > Sincerely > Rolf > >

Support wise, ease of use and price, I dont see what is wrong with the Digital Mars IDDE Phill. "Rolf Hemmerling" <hemmerling@gmx.net> wrote in message news:br1j17$tte$1@digitaldaemon.com... > Hello ! > > Which wxWindows GUI builder for rookies ? > > I just know the commercial/affordable GUI builders > > http://www.roebling.de/ http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/ > > but did not find any free gui builder. > > Any reasons for / against any of them ? > > Any other project with a free gui builder available ? > > I just do my very first academic C++ project, with QT/Win Academic ( choice of the professor), but I would like to keep this little project ( a simple soccer manager game result list ) so portable, that the gui parts are separated from the independant part, > > so that alternative user interfaces with "any MSWindows-only" Gui Framework ( MFC, Windows Forms,..) and especially wxWindows and mandatory QT/Win support are very easy to add. > > So I a litte experience with Java GUI designers ( JBuilder, Forte/Netbeans, both AWT and Swing) from a Java project with GUI, but no with C++. > > Sincerely > Rolf > > > -- > / / / Alone on the data highway... > / / like on an allee in Hannover-Herrenhausen > / / / The Hemmerling (R) WEB site - Rolf Hemmerling,Germany > / / / http://www.hemmerling.com/ >