Re: [wxWorkshop-dev] wxWorkshop still lives?

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wxw...@li... wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am surprised and delighted that someone is still looking at this 
> project. I am also surprised that I was still registered in the 
> mailing list!
Hey, we can all use the help we can get.
>    I am a total novice, and I once tried to understand why this 
> project died. I have since given up trying to make sense of it. I 
> needed a IDE to begin learning about C/C++ and wxwindows/wxwidgits and 
> the mingw compiler.
There is an ide that works well with MinGW, but not a RAD Tool, I 
believe it is Visual-MinGW, (http://visual-mingw.sourceforge.net), that 
I used when I had a WinXP machine and making wxWIdgets programs for both 
Windows & Linux for my employer.  Now, I work for another employer and 
don't have access to a Windows machine.

> Others that I have found do not make it easy. I hoped that this was 
> the answer. There was an attempt about a year ago and sadly I was 
> unable to help. The project was discouraged by one of the developers.
Why was it discouraged?  If that is the project I read about trying to 
make the wxWidgets classes match up with MFC classes, then, yeah, I can 
understand why.  Personally, I think it would be a big mistake to 
emulate MFC in wxWidgets, and think it would just be better if wxWidgets 
interoperated with MFC and other classes instead.  If that wasn't the 
reason, I'd be interested to know why this project was being 
discouraged?  Only motivation I can think of, then, would be that 
someone wants to steer people to their pay versions of their IDEs 
instead of letting people use free versions.
>    I am unsure how I can help... I currently use a windows 2000 system.
Even if just testing on your system is help that would be appreciate I 
would think.

Anyhow, I hope others will join too.  The only things you guys may not 
like is that right now I want to focus on the RAD tool aspects.  Myself, 
I'm looking for a good replacement for wxGlade.  wxGlade is OK, but I 
don't want to program or run wxPython (just my preference), and right 
now, I'm seeing problems with wxGlade trying to work with version 2.6.1.

By the way, be patient with me, I'm just now starting to convert the 
files (and will apparently be adjusting the make environment to start 
using the wx-config options rather than the .env files needed in the 
existing projects.  This may take me a while.  I might suggest that you 
get MinGW (with MSYS tools) on your system, then compile the wxMSW port 
of wxWidgets on it so you can experiment with Windows make files under 
MinGW.  My goal is to have one set of sources, but a different Makefile 
to match the platform the program is made on.  It looks like the 
original project does this already.

--Spicerun