Cross-Platform GUI Programming with Wxwidgets

by Julian Smart, Stefan Csomor, Kevin Hock, et al.

Book Overview

"This book is the best way for beginning developers to learn wxWidgets programming in C++. It is a must-have for programmers thinking of using wxWidgets and those already using it." -Mitch Kapor,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131473816
• ISBN13: 9780131473812
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Cross-Platform GUI book

The book itself is the only one on this matter. It is well written with tons of examples. I would consider this book as a must for those who are writing the Cross-Platform GUI using open source libs. The book came very fast and in a perfect condition. I would highly recommend buying books from this seller.

wxWidgets

The definitive book on wxWindows (now wxWidgets). This can be found online but I do like the printed books better. Covers mostly everything a novice (to wxWidgets) needs to get started on multi-platform applications.

wxWidgets is great and this is the only book so you better get it :)

This is the only wxWidgets book so far so it's not like you have many choices! I read this book twice and then the official documentation and I still use this book as a reference sometimes. This book has a TON of errata though so the next release hopefully they are more careful with editing... I highly recommend getting this book if you want to learn wxWidgets and cross-platform application writing!

A Great Book

This is, in my opinion, a great and much-needed book on wxWidgets. To date it is the only one. The preface says, and I agree, that it is "accessible to developers with a variety of experience and backgrounds". That said, there will be a steep learning curve for people with limited relevant experience (particularly of C++). Such readers will require further support, from people, ideally both in person and from Internet resources such as comp.soft-sys.wxwindows. For experienced programmers, even those with experience of wxWidgets, the book will be very useful to learn aspects that they have not yet explored. The book is also invaluable as a reference text, for its links to related projects and software, and the resources on the CD.

Developing elegant applications for Linux

wxWidgets is an application framework for developers who want to develop very good-looking applications for Linux, Windows or Mac. The fact that your application can be re-compiled for any of the three operating systems is definetly an attractive plus. My development is mainly for Linux, and when I first ran accross wxWidgets, I was amazed at how quickly I could get a simple application going in under an hour. Compiling the library is as easy as issuing a few commands from a terminal window, changing to the samples directory, and running make under the minimal sample directory. Bear in mind that developing applications is not for complete beginners. You should know C/C++ already, and be reasonably familiar with your OS and compiler. That way, following the examples given in the book, and reading the source code from wxWidgets samples directory, can get you up and running in a minimum of time. I came from a C background, but I had a reasonably complicated inter-airport messaging system for a local goverment authority working in two weeks, with the help of a serial communications library contributed by another wxWidgets user. The book comes with a CD full of useful tools and community contributions. I have yet to see, in my 30+ years of programming and project management, a framework as complete as wxWidgets. The support from other users is extraordinary, and you can often be talking to the original developers who are more than willing to help you get going. The fact that it is open source ensures this fantastic library will always be improving. This book is something I was awaiting for a long time. It is definetly worth the price (and then some).