RE: [Dev-C++] WxWINDOW

[Santiago P. C. <San...@yd...>]

Hi Luis,

From my personal experience (I've been programming with MFC from some tim=
e
ago [4-5 years]), what I can tell you is that programming wxWindows IS mu=
ch
EASIER than programming M$ MFC and/or win32 API.=20

I've been using wxWindows for 6 months now, but I really think that it ma=
kes
sense to use this library.

wxWindows classes are well structured, you are able to modify / extend th=
em
and you can contribute to improve the library by submitting your code to
wxWindows development team. You are NOT forced to use doc/view apps even
when there's no need for that programming structure, etc...

Please have also in mind that:

- 	wxWindows source is portable between M$ Windows and some UNIX
flavours (Solaris, Linux,...)
=09MFC / win32 API is NOT portable in any way.

- 	wxWindows source can be compiled with MinGW / M$ VC++ / Borland /
etc...
=09MFC can ONLY be compiled with M$ VC++

- 	some MFC code does NOT follow C/C++ 'good programming techniques'
nor 'real' templates, etc...
=09	(take a look at MFC code, you'll find some goto's and much
more ;o)=20
=09wxWindows IS pure C++ without 'shortcuts' ;oD

-	It is likely to happen that MFC became obsolete since .NET have born
=09wxWindows will be 'alive' whenever people use it: we've got the
sources!

Just my 2 cents!

~Santy
PS: I do not consider myself a 'guru', that's another reason why I like s=
uch
a library like wxWindows: it makes my life easier!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Godio [mailto:lg...@ya...]=20
Sent: s=E1bado, 19 de octubre de 2002 0:14
To: Santiago Palmier Campos; dev-cpp-users-list
Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] WxWINDOW


Based on the Santiago's note, it seems like wxWindows is a lot of effort =
to
set up correctly. Could someone experienced with wxWindows tell us if it =
is
worth all this effort ?



--- Santiago Palmier Campos <San...@yd...> wrote:
> Hi *,
>=20
> If you don't use Dev-C++ package and you want to use wxWindows sources =

> 'by yourself', there are only a few things you must do in order to use
> wxWindows...
>=20
> Download wxWindows sources (from http://wxwindows.sourceforge.net/),
> download also 'extra.zip' file (from http://wxwindows.sourceforge.net/ =

> also, but only if you don't use MSYS from=20
> http://mingw.sourceforge.net/) and then,
> FIRST OF ALL, please read the file: %WXWIN%/docs/msw/install.txt=20
>=20
> You'll find everything you'll need in order to install it!!!
>=20
> Anyway here you have a 'Quick How To'...
>=20
> Set a few environment variables:
> 	WXWIN to the path where you decompressed wxWindows sources,
> 	if needed, BISON_SIMPLE & BISON_HAIRY to the complete path to files
> (complete/path/to/folder/plus/filename.extension)
>=20
> Edit %WXWIN%\src\makeg95.env, search through the options and set them=20
> to the appropriate values to fit your system needs; I just changed the
> following
> ones (keep in mind that these are MY values for WinAPI & MinGW
> installation
> ;o):
> 	MINGW32=3D1
> 	MINGW32VERSION=3D3.2
> 	YACC=3Dbison
> 	CPU=3Dpentium4
> 	COMPPATHS =3D -I"D:/WinAPI/include" -I"D:/MinGW/include"
> 	Perhaps you may want to include these two also:
> -I"D:/MinGW/include/sys" -I"D:/MinGW/include/c++/3.2"
>=20
> ...And add the appropriate dirs to this one (keeping the original=20
> stuff, of
> course):
> 	LDFLAGS =3D (...original stuff...) -L"D:/MinGW/lib"  -L"D:/WinAPI/lib"=

>=20
> Then cd to %WXWIN%\src\msw and use make -f makefile.g95 clean / make=20
> -f makefile.g95 and wait... That's all!!! You'll have wxWindows ready=20
> to use (there are a few more options to use the
> wxWindows DLL, so read the docs, please...)
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> You'll only need to use a makefile like the following one, you only=20
> have to modify 'OBJECTS' to fit your needs:
> 	# Makefile for wxWindows (Mingw32).
> 	# WXDIR =3D D:/wxWindows/v2.3.3
>=20
> 	TARGET=3DMyApp
> 	OBJECTS =3D $(TARGET).o MyFrame.o MyOtherStuff.o
>=20
> 	include $(WXDIR)/src/makeprog.g95
>=20
> Hope this helps
> Santy
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Garc=EDa del Monte [mailto:cg...@wo...]
> Sent: jueves, 17 de octubre de 2002 22:24
> To: ma...@al...; dev-cpp-users-list
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] WxWINDOW
>=20
>=20
> Oh, sorry, I thought you got the package from dev home page, which is=20
> a devpak.
>=20
> What I did was this: (having gcc[C:\Dev-Cpp\Bin] in the path)
> 1- I unpacked it to C:\wxMSW
> 2 - open command.exe
> 3 - cd to C:\wxMSW\src
> 4 - type make -f makefile.g95 and wait, then I ran over some of the=20
> other folders seeing that in all of them the result was "make nothing=20
> to be done
> for all", so I gave it as built. Well, there were a couple of utilities=

> about dialog editor or something like that, I cd to there and make etc.=

>=20
> The bad news are that I never could make it work, except for the=20
> examples that were with it, which compiled fine, I tried some examples =

> for
> Dev-C++
> and I couldn't compile any one.
>=20
> The first you must do when making a project is define __GNUWIN32__ and =

> define UNICODE, and define __WXMSW__
>=20
> And a lot of compiler options, linker parameters... search in the dev=20
> mailing list, I don't remember when they answered me with all those=20
> options you must provide, more or less six or seven months ago or=20
> before.
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