All About Linux: Book Review: Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets | Linux Today

All About Linux: Book Review: Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 20, 2005

“wxWidgets is an open-source library used for writing
sophisticated C++ applications. There are quite a few libraries
available for GUI development but what is unique about this library
(wxWidgets) is its cross platform support as well as it being
released in the open source realm. Some of the popular software
like Chess Commander, Audacity – a popular audio editor and pgAdmin
III–a powerful administration and development platform for the
PostgreSQL database have been developed using wxWidgets. In fact,
this library comes with 100s of ready to use C++ classes which can
be used to rapidly build sophisticated applications targeting
Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and even Palm OS platforms…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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